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VLADIMIR NOVOTNY is professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering; chairman of the Environmental and Water Resources Committee at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and president of AquaNova International, Ltd., an environmental consulting firm. Dr. Novotny has chaired and organized several important conferences in the field of pollution control. He is also a chairman of the international specialists’ group within the International Association on Water Quality that deals with diffuse pollution. He has written or co-written numerous books and papers, including Handbook of Nonpoint Pollution: Sources and Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. HARVEY OLEM is director of the Center for Watershed Protection and president of Olem Associates. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Environmental Pollution Control from Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Liming Acidic Surface Waters and numerous articles and reports.

Laws, Regulation, and Policies Affecting Water-Pollution Abatement.

Hydrologic Considerations.

Atmospheric Deposition.

Erosion and Sedimentation.

Pollutant Interaction with Soils and Sediments.

Ground-Water and Base-Flow Concentration.

Urban and Highway Diffuse Pollution.

Modeling and Monitoring Diffuse Pollution.

Control of Urban Diffuse Pollution.

Agricultural Issues.

Receiving Water Impacts.

Toxic Pollution and Its Impact on Receiving Waters.

Wetlands.

Management and Restoration of Streams, Lakes, and Watersheds.

Integrated Planning and Control of Diffuse Pollution—Watershed Management.

Epilogue.

Appendices.

Index.