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The Effects of Urbanization on Water Quality¹

ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to summarize existing knowledge of the effects of urbanization on hydrologic factors and their ultimate effect on water quality. Urbanization has the greatest effect on the hydrology of an area which ultimately results in the degradation of the quality of both surface and ground water. Urbanization increases the sediment load carried by streams, decreases ground water recharge, promotes eutrophication, and causes temperature variation in streams, all of which tend to alter water quality.

¹ Received April 22, 1971.

² Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Mississippi State Univ., State College, Miss.