Abstract
INTRODUCTION In 2007, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the first Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) in the country based not on a specific pollutant or pollutants, but on impervious cover (IC) (Arnold et al., 2010). The water body in question was Eagleville Brook, a small tributary of the Willimantic River in eastern Connecticut that drains a majority of the University of Connecticut campus. The university is in effect a small city within a largely rural area. Partly as a result of this, there has been a history of “town-gown” tension and controversy with regard to the university's impact on the water resources of the area. This tension reached a climax in September 2005, when a quarter-mile stretch of the Fenton River, which drains the part of campus not in the Eagleville watershed, ran dry (Merritt, 2005). Water quantity concerns were frequently joined by water quality concerns, with area residents complaining about the pollution of their drinking water (Morse, 2002)...
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