2.4.3. Allocation of Regulatory Fines Based on Salt Load Generation

The allocation scheme in (11) simply suggests that each polluter (subarea) will be charged in proportion to the amount of salt load it generates. Therefore, the cost to subarea *j* is

$$\Theta\_{\dot{j}} = F \frac{S\_{\dot{j}}}{\sum\_{j \in N} S\_i} \tag{11}$$

where *Sj* is the quantity of salt load generated by subarea *j*.

This policy is the most equitable but also the most difficult to administer since current monitoring and modeling is insufficient to accurately measure or estimate the salt load export from each subarea. Current models are not capable of recognizing the amount off drainage reuse within each subarea.
