Browsing Water Resources Research Center by Subject "urbanization"

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WRRCSR No.10:05:90 Urbanization, Land-Use Planning, and Groundwater Management in Central Oahu, Hawaii

Ridgley, Mark A; Giambelluca, Thomas W (Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii, 1990-10)

In the Hawaiian Islands, planners and public officials have decided recently to raise the permissible level of urban development in central Oahu. The decision is opposed by many on the grounds that it threatens agricultural ...
WRRCTR No.127 Urbanization-Induced Impacts on Infiltration Capacity and on Rainfall-Runoff Relation in an Hawaiian Urban Area

Murabayashi, Edwin T; Fok, Yu-Si (Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979-09)

The effect of urbanization on infiltration on rainfall-runoff relations was investigated at Mililani Town, O'ahu, Hawai'i, a residential community. The double-ring method determined the mean constant infiltration rate to ...