Choice Review

This book contains 28 papers presented at a 1985 NATO-sponsored advanced research workshop. Urban runoff has long been recognized as a major nonprofit source of water pollution, and considerable research has been conducted on the mechanisms and processes that govern this source, as well as on control measures to reduce or eliminate its impacts. The papers and resultant discussions represent the state of the art in European and North American experience on urban runoff pollution. For each of the nine topical chapters there is a review paper, one or more specific papers on some aspect of the topic, and a summary of the discussions that followed the papers. These chapters address the pollutional aspects of urban runoff; field studies of urban runoff quality; deterministic modeling of runoff processes; statistically based modeling of urban runoff processes; conventional pollutant impacts on receiving waters; toxic pollutant impacts on receiving waters; receiving water modeling; runoff quality management; and real-time control. This excellent reference book on the causes, consequences, and control methods for urban runoff pollution would be useful for practicing engineers, environmental scientists, and graduate students.-L. Canter, University of Oklahoma