Hydrologic data for urban storm runoff from three localities in the Denver metropolitan area, Colorado

Abstract

Urban storm-runoff data, collected from 1975 to 1977, on three catchment areas in the Denver metropolitan area are presented in this report. The catchments are predominantly a single-family residential catchment area in Littleton, a multifamily residential and commercial catchment area in Lakewood, and a high-density residential and commercial catchment area in Denver. Precipitation, rainfal1-runoff, snowmelt-runoff, water-quality (common constituents, nutrients, biochemical oxygen demand, coliform bacteria, and solids, trace elements, and pesticides), and catchment-area data are necessary to use the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Storm Water Management Model II. The urban storm-runoff data may be used by planning, water-management, and environmental-protection agencies to assess the impact of urban storm runoff on the hydrologic system.

Summary and evaluation of the quality of stormwater in Denver, Colorado, 2006-2010

“…Several previous investigations of stormwater quality have been completed in the Denver area. From 1979 through 1983, annual data reports were issued summarizing stormwatermonitoring activities by the USGS for various stations in the Denver metropolitan area (Ellis, 1978;Ellis and Alley, 1979;Duncan, 1980, 1981;Gibbs, 1981;Gibbs and Doerfer, 1982;Gibbs and others, 1983). Although these activities included some sampling in the South Platte River, most of the activities focused on tributaries to the South Platte River.…”

An evaluation of rainfall-runoff data for the Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado

“…The basin consists of 80 acres, of which 69 acres are offsite and 11 acres are on DFC property (table 2 and Additional basin and channel characteristics such as the area, centroid, channel length, channel slope, basin slope, total relief and elevation of the gaging site are given in table 3 (Alley and Veenhuis, 1979). Several studies of the offsite drainage have been published including one study of potential flood hazard by Grozier and others (1975); three hydro!ogic-data reports by Ellis and Alley (1978), Gibbs (1981), and Gibbs and Doerfer (1982); two hydro!ogic simulation reports by Ell is and Alley (1979) and Ell is and others (1983); and three drainage studies (Hydro-Triad, Ltd., 1973;1974;. The north tributary accounts for an additional 549 acres that drain to a series of retention storage ponds.…”