WATER QUALITY DEGRADATION DUE TO NON-POINT POLLUTION FROM URBAN SOURCES

A study of the concentrations of cadmium and lead in the Christiana River in the Newark, Delaware, area showed that lead pollution originates from airborne automotive exhausts, while cadmium pollution originates from surface stormwater runoff. Four complete storm events were sampled for streamwater degradation analysis at five different sampling stations. Stream sediments and soils suspended during a storm event have significant adsorption capacity. Hydraulic dispersion and stochastic models are used to describe stream responses to storm events.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Delaware, Newark

  College of Engineering
  Newark, DE  United States  19711

  Office of Water Research and Technology

  C Street between 18th and 19th Streets, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20242
• Authors:
  • Carberry, J B
• Publication Date: 1980-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 80 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adsorption; Air pollution; Atomic physics; Automobiles; Cadmium; Concentration (Chemistry); Drainage; Exhaust gases; Hydraulic structures; Lead (Metal); Mathematical models; pH value; Runoff; Sampling; Sediments; Spectroscopy; Spectrum analysis; Stochastic processes; Water pollution; Water quality
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hydraulic models; Models
• Geographic Terms: Christiana River; Delaware
• Old TRIS Terms: Atomic spectroscopy
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00328448
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: OWRT-B-018-DEL (3) Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DI-14-34-0001-8070
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 15 1981 12:00AM