Effects of urbanization on stream water quality in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2860-2878

  Peters, Norman E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Major ions; Monitoring; Nutrients; Stream water quality; Urbanization; Weathering

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM ALUM; ATLANTA; AUTOMATIC SAMPLING; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; DEICING SALTS; DRAINAGE AREA; FECAL COLIFORM BACTERIA; FIELD PARAMETERS; GEORGIA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH VARIABILITY; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; MAJOR IONS; MANUFACTURING PLANT; METALS CONCENTRATIONS; ON-STREAM; REFERENCE STREAMS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; STORMWATER COLLECTION; STREAM SAMPLING; STREAM WATER; STREAM WATER QUALITY; TRACE METAL; URBAN STREAM; URBANIZATION; WASH OFF; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATER TEMPERATURES; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; WINTER STORMS;

ALKALINITY; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COLIFORM BACTERIA; COMBINED SEWERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EROSION; IONS; METAL RECOVERY; NUTRIENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENTS; SULFATE MINERALS; THUNDERSTORMS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

RIVERS;

DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FECAL COLIFORM; MONITORING SYSTEM; STREAMWATER; URBANIZATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70349299224     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7373     Document Type: Article

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