... Streamflow data and dry-weather and stormwater water-quality samples were collected from the main stem of the Charles River (or the Basin) and from four partially culverted urban streams that drain tributary sub-basins in the lower Charles River watershed; samples were collected between June 1999 and September 2000 and analyzed for a number of potential contaminants; these data were used to identify the major pathways and to determine the magnitudes of contaminant loads that contribute to poor water quality of the lower Charles River ...

...Describes modeling efforts to calculate non-combined-sewer-overflow runoff to the Lower Charles River; models were constructed for 3 land-use subbasins and the Laundry and Faneuil Brook tributary subbasins...