Characterization of urban runoff

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Unrecorded pollution and nonpoint sources are too important to be neglected in water quality analysis, but the findings in the literature have been too scattered in place and time, and too diversely reported, to have been fully accepted. Such pollution is usually referred to as nonpoint source pollution, or in developed areas as urban runoff, in spite of the fact that considerable parts of it are delivered by large storm sewers and may originate partly from unrecorded urban point sources. For convenience, this usual terminology is employed in this paper. The work of each of five participating institutes was designed to evaluate urban runoff pollution from areas within that state and to relate those findings to differences in land use. Results have been reported in detail in the separate reports by the respective investigators. This report summarizes these findings and then draws conclusions which the five principal investigators agreed upon.

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