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Shellfish Harvesting Waters Closed or Restricted Due to Fecal Coliform Contamination

	BAY	TOTAL AREA (SQ. MI.)	APPROVED	COND. APPROVAL	RESTRICTED/ PROHIBITED
1.	Sabine Pass	2.1	0.0	0.0	2.1
2.	Sabine Lake	68.7	0.0	0.0	68.7
3.	Upper Galveston Bay	108.2	26.2	21.2	60.8
4.	Trinity Bay	130.1	22.5	25.9	81.7
5.	East Bay	52.1	39.4	0.0	12.7
6.	West Bay	69.3	45.9	0.0	23.4
7.	Chocolate Bay	7.6	0.0	0.0	7.6
8.	Bastrop Bay/Oyster Lake	3.9	3.9	0.0	0.0
9.	Christmas Bay	8.9	8.9	0.0	0.0
10.	Drum Bay	1.7	1.7	0.0	0.0
11.	Lower Galveston Bay	139.6	67.3	13.7	58.6
12.	East Matagorda Bay	59.1	59.1	0.0	0.0
13.	Cedar Lakes	6.9	0.0	0.0	6.9
14.	Matagorda Bay/Powderhorn Lake	261.7	172.6	16.6	72.5
15.	Tres Palacios Bay/ Turtle Bay	14.7	0.0	7.1	7.6
16.	Lavaca Bay/Chocolate Bay	54.8	14.9	10.4	29.5
17.	Cox Bay	2.9	2.1	0.0	0.8
18.	Keller Bay	7.5	6.4	0.0	1.1
19.	Carancahua Bay	19.0	9.0	0.0	10.0
20.	Espiritu Santo Bay	60.8	60.8	0.0	0.0
21.	San Antonio Bay/Haynes Bay/Guadalupe Bay	119.5	0.0	71.7	47.8
22.	Mesquite Bay/Carlos Bay/Ayers Bay	12.6	12.6	0.0	0.0
23.	Aransas Bay	87.8	82.4	0.0	5.4
24.	Copano Bay/ Port Bay/ Mission Bay	65.2	50.9	0.0	14.3
25.	St. Charles Bay	13.1	6.7	0.0	6.4
26.	Corpus Christi Bay	123.1	107.2	0.0	15.9
27.	Nueces Bay	28.9	20.2	0.0	8.7
28.	Redfish Bay	28.8	0.0	0.0	28.8
29.	Oso Bay	7.2	0.0	0.0	7.2
30.	Laguna Madre	347.4	290.6	0.0	56.8
31.	Baffin Bay/ Alazan Bay	49.8	49.8	0.0	0.0
32.	South Bay	7.8	7.8	0.0	0.0
	Totals	1,970.8	1,168.9	166.6	635.3

Source: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 12th Edition (Austin: TNRCC, 1995), 175-177.

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