Quantitative Models and Analysis of Urban Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Control Systems

摘要

Agencies designated to implement the Clean Water Act of Public Law PS 72-500, Section 208 often encounter difficulties associated with the management of systems consisting of complex interactions of soft and imprecisely stated phenomena. Two such major areas in this implementation process concern the use of the publics in water resources plan formulation and the use of the so called best management strategies in the control of nonpoint source water pollution. The quantitative analysis of these systems as well as the development of quantitatively based models for measuring their effectiveness is the subject of the inquiry whose results are reported here.