Urban storm runoff study conducted in the central Arizona-Phoenix area: study site locations

Flood is the other major disturbance on which CAP LTER will focus. In
collaboration with the USGS, we have begun a study to examine the transport of
materials from urban patches to waterways during the intense, localized storms that
characterize this region. Their existing data, plus new studies initiated in summer
1998, will form the basis for comparison of urban, suburban, and desert catchments
in terms of their yields of nutrients, organic carbon, and metals.