Implementing a Regional Urban Storm Water Monitoring Program

Proceedings of the 1993 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 20-21, 1993, Athens, Georgia.The impacts of storm water runoff on water quality are becoming more significant as urban areas continue to expand and improvements are made in treated wastewater effluent quality. Urban storm water runoff can contain significant amounts of various pollutants including bacteria, sediments, nutrients and heavy metals (U.S. EPA, 1983). Urbanization or development of a watershed can have a variety of impacts on the stream, including increased flooding, streambank erosion and pollutant export (Schueler, 1987). This paper describes a regional monitoring plan developed and implemented in the Atlanta Region to comply with Clean Water Act rules, to characterize local storm water discharges, evaluate storm water control measures and identify long-term trends.Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors