| Abstract: | Considerable variation in constituent concentrations was shown in urban runoff data for 1975-77 from three metropolitan Denver drainage basins. Constituent concentrations, greatest during initial rainfall runoff, generally peaked midday of snowmelt runoff, corresponding with maximum melting and runoff. Instantaneous loads of constituents were largely a function of discharge. Days since last street sweeping or antecedent precipitation had no apparent effect; snowmelt-runoff loads apparently increased with number of days snow had been on the ground. Urban storm runoff may significantly contribute total ammonia nitrogen, total nonfiltrable residue, total copper, total iron, total lead, and total zinc; and snowmelt runoff may significantly contribute sodium and chloride, to local receiving waters. Data from two basins were used for calibration and verification of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ‘s Storm Water Management Model II for rainfall-runoff modeling of flow and total nitrogen. The model assumption that land-surface loads of total nitrogen are directly proportional to number of days prior to storm during which accumulated rainfall was less than 1.0 inch was not substantiated. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| ProdID: | 26964 |
| Citation Author: | Ellis, Sherman R.; Alley, William M. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 60 p. :ill., maps ;26 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | 79-64 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Quantity and quality of urban runoff from three localities in the Denver Metropolitan area, Colorado; 1979; WRI; 79-64; Ellis, Sherman R.; Alley, William M. |
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| Text: | Quantity and quality of urban runoff from three localities in the Denver Metropolitan area, Colorado; 1979; WRI; 79-64; Ellis, Sherman R.; Alley, William M. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
