TABLE 1

Annual River Discharge and Phosphorus and Nitrogen Loads to the Peel-Harvey
Estuarine System 1977-1988⁹

River	Discharge load (billion liters/year)			Total phosphorus load (tonnes/year)			Total nitrogen (tonnes/year)
	Min	Max	Mean	Min	Max	Mean	Min	Max	Mean
Harvey River and Drains	86	370	225	25	133	82	138	1,115	430
	(36%)			(57%)			(35%)
Serpentine River	50	190	129	14	70	43	110	629	250
	(21%)			(30%)			(20%)
Murray River	62	756	264	3	69	18	46	2,012	553
	(43%)			(13%)			(45%)
Total	618			143			1,233
	(100%)			(100%)			(100%)

Note: The rivers and their catchments are shown in Figure 2.