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Self-Purification and Rainfall Events in a Tropical Rural Catchment, Nigeria

This paper studies self-cleansing processes in an urbanized stream in a Nigerian city. The stream under study took its source from a refuse heap in the Central open-place-city market and empties its water into a University Dam 15 kilometres away. Twenty-seven water samples were taken from nine sample points, which were selected with distances down- streams and according to land use changes in the period before and after the 1st and the 2nd rainfall events. The results showed that some parameters decrease progressively with rain events while some equally increase progressively. The result of th…