Water quality

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Overview[edit]

Improvements in the quality of stormwater runoff is one of the primary benefits of low impact development strategies.



Nutrients[edit]

Phosphorous

Plants (including algae) require three macro nutrients to grow: Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous. Of these three, phosphorous is the often the "growth-limiting" nutrient. i.e. the local environment may have an abundance of nitrogen and potassium, but algae won't develop until phosphorous is added too.

Major sources of man-made phosphorous in the environment include agricultural fertilizers...

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