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A process for characterizing urban land-use intensity in drainage basins
Project Abstract
By Gerard McMahon and Tom F. Cuffney
Full Journal Article (4 pages, 83K)
Abstract
Three investigations are underway, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, to study the relation between varying levels of urban land-use intensity in drainage basins and in-stream water quality, measured by physical, chemical, and biological factors. These studies are being conducted in the vicinities of Boston (Mass.), Salt Lake City (Utah), and Birmingham (Ala.), areas where rapid urbanization is occurring. For each study, water quality will be monitored in approximately 30 basins that represent a gradient of urban intensity. During the planning phase of each study, basin characteristics were developed for all potential study basins and the information in the individual characteristics was combined to develop a single index of urban intensity. Basin characterization efforts associated with the Boston study are described here for illustrative purposes.
Citation:
McMahon, Gerard, and Cuffney, T.F., 1999, A process for characterizing urban land-use intensity in drainage basins [abs.],
in Sakrison, Rodney, and Sturtevant, Peter, eds., Proceedings of AWRA's 1999 Annual Water Resources Conference, Watershed Management to Protect Declining Species, December 5-9, 1999, Seattle, Wash.: Washington State Section of the American Water Resources Association, p. 257-260.
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Available from the Washington State Section of the American Water Resources Association, Seattle, Washington, Conference on Watershed Management to Protect Declining Species, December 5-9, 1999, p. 257-260. |
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