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The Palolo Deep Marine Reserve is a fringing reef encompassing a lagoon comprising a total area of 137.5 hectares. The area was initially folmalised as a Marine Reserve in 1974 under the National Parks and Reserves Act though no management plan had been prepared. This report is to provide a greater understanding of the marine environment within the Reserve. A basic inventor-v- and classification of the marine environment was undertaken together with provision for continued monitoring.

Hazardous waste is now as an important environmental and health issue, but it was not always so. Until recently, many industrial wastes were carelessly dumped without regard to the consequences. In fact, this situation is still common in many places, and workers and the local population around dumpsites continue to be at significant risk