RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Storm runoff and water quality on three ephemeral washes in the Price River Basin, Utah
JF Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
FD Soil and Water Conservation Society
SP 211
OP 214
VO 39
IS 3
A1 Anching Lin
A1 William L. Jackson
A1 Karla D. Knoop
YR 1984
UL http://www.jswconline.org/content/39/3/211.abstract
AB 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.