Public Health Effects of Inadequately Managed Stormwater Runoff

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1527-1533

  Gaffield, Stephen J ^a,c   Goo, Robert L ^a   Richards, Lynn A ^a   Jackson, Richard J ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; STORM WATER; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; PUBLIC HEALTH; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; STANDARD; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

COST OF ILLNESS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0141832796     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1527     Document Type: Article

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