Storm Event and Continuous Modeling of an Illinois Watershed to Evaluate Surface Water Supplies

pollution from agriculture can affect the quality and quantity of surface water, and runoff from storm events can increase the effect. Because of this concern, researchers at the Midwest Technology Assistance Center (MTAC) for Small Public Water Systems began searching for a watershed-scale hydrologic and nonpointsource pollution computerized model that they could enhance with storm-event algorithms. One of their main goals was to use an augmented version of a watershed model as a source water protection and assessment tool for small public water supply systems.