1.   In Texas, where almost all the major rivers flow into bays and estuaries on the Gulf Coast, reservoirs seriously alter the freshwater inflows into those systems.

2.   One theory is that the move to dam so many rivers in the south, thus slowing freshwater inflow, had some impact on tarpon numbers.

3.   Pedersen acknowledges that only Region H, which includes the Houston area, included any analysis of freshwater inflows into Galveston Bay and Trinity Bay.

4.   Proposals to draw out the salt in the sea with evaporation ponds or misters still require freshwater inflows to replace the evaporated water, McNaughton points out.