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Unreasonably High Eutrophication Potential for Georgia in USEEIO State v1.0 #5
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While comparing environmental footprints to per capita planetary boundaries I noticed an unreasonably high eutrophication potential for the state of Georgia in the year 2020. I am working with the publicly available models available at (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/useeio-state-models-v1-0-for-2020). Eutrophication potential for Georgia appears to be around 10 times higher than any other state, which seems unreasonable. To find the total eutrophication potential I combined the total dollars spent in each sector from the consumption complete tab with the estimates of eutrophication potential per dollar spent in each sector from the total impact matrix.
Reacted by Dr. Wesley Ingwersen
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bl-young commentedon Oct 27, 2025
Yes the underlying dataset from the DMR for eutrophication includes a data point for a facility in GA with very high emissions (you can find the report here). At the time we did not have a system in place to make adjustments to the underlying datasets as they are reported, other than to confirm that the data were being extracted and processed correctly. This seems very likely to be a reporting error, though I don't know for sure.