TY - JOUR T1 - Storm runoff and water quality on three ephemeral washes in the Price River Basin, Utah JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 211 LP - 214 VL - 39 IS - 3 AU - Anching Lin AU - William L. Jackson AU - Karla D. Knoop Y1 - 1984/05/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/39/3/211.abstract N2 - Eighteen late-summer runoff events were monitored in 1981 on three small watersheds in the Price River Basin, Utah. Average concentrations of total solids from a single storm ranged from 2.783 mg/1 on Coal Creek to 267,680 mg/1 on Wattis Branch. The largest discharge of total dissolved solids, 47 mg, was on Wattis Branch. Average single-storm concentrations of total dissolved solids ranged from 181 mg/1 on Coal Creek to 7,680 mg/1 on Wattis Branch. Particularly high concentrations of total solids and total dissolved solids occurred in runoff on all three watersheds during the first monitored storm following a long, dry period, suggesting a flushing of accumulated sediments and salts. Average storm total solids and total dissolved solids concentrations corresponded to surface soil-loss potential as indexed by universal soil loss equation parameters. ER -