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Main Title Nationwide Urban Runoff Project, Champaign, Illinois: The Biological Impact of Urban Runoff on the Saline Branch Drainage Ditch and Boneyard Creek.
Author Blake-Coleman, W. ;
CORP Author Illinois State Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield. Div. of Water Pollution Control.
Year Published 1984
Report Number IEPA/WPC/84-028;
Stock Number PB85-150274
Additional Subjects Water pollution ; Runoff ; Urban areas ; Boneyard Creek ; Environmental impacts ; Aquatic biology ; Fishes ; Invertebrates ; Vegetation ; Oxygen ; Dissolved gases ; Aquatic plants ; Sensitivity ; Trends ; pH ; Tables(Data) ; Illinois ; Habitats ; Champaign(Illinois) ; Storm water runoff ; Species diversity
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NTIS  PB85-150274 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency was one of a number of agencies which participated in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (NURP). NURP consisted of 28 projects which evaluated the type and extent of urban runoff problems, impacts of urban runoff on receiving waters and the effectiveness of control practices. The work reported in this document is the component of the study which assessed the impacts of urban runoff on the receiving stream. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of urban runoff on the biota of both the urban receiving stream, Boneyard Creek, and the agricultural stream into which it flows, the Saline Branch Drainage Ditch. Fish and macroinvertebrate communities were sampled upstream and downstream from Champaign-Urbana area. Chlorophyll samples were collected upstream and downstream of the urban area.