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I found water quality was generally not degraded along the urban gradient as expected. Nutrient rich waters and high chloride concentrations were determined to be important drivers of decreased diversity and higher algal biomass dominated by cyanobacteria. In my assessment of McLaughlin Bay, I found that due to the nutrient- and chloride-rich conditions, the plankton community was dominated by inedible algal communities, and small zooplankton taxa. 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