Suppose the town of Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast is applying for a permit to bui

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Suppose the town of Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast is applying for a permit to build an ocean outfall. Ocean outfalls pipe partially treated sewage out to the ocean several miles where it is discharged to be carried away by the currents. It is estimated that storms may occasionally result in shifts in ocean currents that transport the sewage back to the beach, prompting beach closures for days after the storm passes. When this occurs, the beaches will be closed for use & no one is allowed to even walk on the beach. The Department of Environment Quality hires you to estimate of the cost of closing the beach for a day. You decide to do a travel-cost study. a) Describe what information you would need to collect to do the study. b) Graphically show how you would measure the cost of closing the beach one day.

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Answer-a

There are different ways to solve the problem, using variations of the travel cost method:

These include:

Answer-b Graphically it can be shown that the closing the beach would result in loss of money. The graph can be plot between total visits and the cost of maintaning the beach and then the desired results can be found by observing the pattarns.

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