National Stormwater Runoff Pollution Database

Identification of Significant Factors Affecting Stormwater Quality Using the National Stormwater Quality Database

“…Previous studies indicated that there are significant differences in stormwater constituents for different land use categories (Pitt et al 2004). This is supported for other databases like NURP (EPA 1983), CDM (Smullen and Cave, 2002) and USGS (Driver et al, 1985). The main question to be addressed in this chapter is if there is a different classification method that better describes stormwater quality, possibly by also considering such factors as geographical area (EPA Rain Zone), season, percentage of imperviousness, watershed area, type of conveyance, controls in the watershed, sampling method, and type of sample compositing, and possible interactions between these factors.…”

Land Development Characteristics in Jefferson County, Alabama

“…This is supported by databases like NURP (EPA 1983), CDM (Smullen and Cave 2002), USGS (Driver, et al 1985) and the National Stormwater Quality Database (NSQD) (Maestre and Pitt 2005). Estimation of stormwater characteristics based on land use is a normal approach and generally accepted by researchers, because it is related to the activity in the watershed and, in addition, many site features are consistent within each land use, including imperviousness.…”

Targeting treatment technologies to address specific stormwater pollutants and numeric discharge limits

“…For sites where historical monitoring data are not available, runoff quality can be estimated based on land use and geographical location using the National Stormwater Quality Database (NSQD) (http://rpitt.eng.ua.edu/Research/ms4/mainms4.shtml). The NSQD data were collected during various sampling efforts, primarily from Phase 1 NPDES MS4 (municipal separate storm sewer system) stormwater permit holders, supplemented with additional data from the Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (NURP) (U.S. EPA, 1983), the International BMP Database (www.bmpdatabase.org), and the U.S. Geological Survey Urban-Stormwater Database (Smullen and Cave, 2002;Driver et al, 1985). Analyses showed the main factors that affected the runoff concentration were land use and geographical location (Pitt and Maestre, 2005;Pitt et al, 2008b;Bochis and Pitt, 2010).…”