text: Yo, listen up, I got a story to tell,
  'Bout the Santa Monica Bay, where the waters dwell.
  When it rains, yo, runoff comes pourin' in,
  From the Ballona Creek Watershed, it's a sin.
  
  The goal of this study was to uncover,
  Metal pollutants, hazardous, they would discover.
  In the flow of wet weather, they wanted to see,
  The concentrations of metals, what they could be.
  
  They calculated the mass of pollutants, you know,
  For each and every storm, they had to go,
  Deeper into the data, to understand the game,
  And find out if there's a first flush, what's its name?
  
  They looked at soluble and sorbed metals too,
  Storm flow and pollutant loading, they had to pursue.
  The total mass loading, pollution from the sub-basins,
  Three of 'em, they wanted to see the relations.
  
  The focus was Ballona Creek, an urbanized zone,
  Residential and light commercial, where they roamed.
  In '97 and '98, El Niño came through,
  They monitored two storms, grabbed samples, it's true.
  
  The first storm hit Ballona Creek, that's where they began,
  The second one hit the Creek, plus two sub-watersheds, man.
  Centinela Channel, Sepulveda Channel too,
  They wanted to see what the data would do.
  
  And what did they find? I'ma break it down for you,
  The mass of hazardous metals, suspended solids knew.
  Cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and nickel,
  They were carried by the solids, ain't that fickle?
  
  But arsenic, my friend, it took another route,
  Primarily found in the aqueous phase, no doubt.
  So there you have it, the results are in,
  Metal pollutants in Santa Monica, causing a din.