What would happen if you had 35 years of data on the stream that you could use for this calculation, but in the last 15 years, urbanization has made the drainage basin virtually unrecognizable?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: You would get falsely low numbers, as infiltration would have been greatly reduced by the paving that went along with urbanization.

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