Abstract

The Santa Monica Bay provides a number of beneficial uses. To protect these, best management practices that control urban runoff should be utilized. In order to determine the types of best management practices to be used, an estimation of nonpoint source pollutant loads generated by the Santa Monica Drainage Basin is needed. Local land use, runoff, and chemical data were used to estimate pollutant loads from nonpoint source pollution and pollutant loads by land use in three subbasins of the Santa Monica Drainage Basin: namely, Ballona Creek, Malibu Creek, and Topanga Creek. The time period of available data was May 1988 to May 1990.

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