Water quality of Tampa Bay, Florida : wet-weather conditions, October 1971

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl R. Goodwin ◽  
Joseph S. Rosenshein ◽  
D.M. Michaelis
1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Crabtree ◽  
Matt Hickman ◽  
Dave Martin

In the UK, the River Tame catchment covers an area of about 1,400 km2 and forms the northern portion of the Birmingham Conurbation. In the 1960s, wet weather conditions in Birmingham could result in the total depletion of oxygen in the River Trent below the Tame confluence. Construction of a system of purification lakes at Lea Marston, below the major polluting discharges, was completed in the early 1980s. Today, the operation of the Lea Marston Lakes significantly improves the quality of the Tame. However, wet weather pollution episodes in the Tame continues to have a severe impact on water quality in the Trent and put major fisheries at risk. This paper reports on the outcome of an integrated environmental impact and cost-benefit assessment modelling study into the future strategic management of the Lea Marston Lakes. The study demonstrated that the Lea Marston Lakes provide an economically justifiable method for reducing the water quality impact of the Birmingham conurbation and as a result will continue to be operated.


1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl R. Goodwin ◽  
Joseph S. Rosenshein ◽  
D.M. Michaelis

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 371-376
Author(s):  
Šuhreta Delibašić ◽  
Jasna Huremović ◽  
Sabina Žero ◽  
Sabina Gojak-Salimović

The present study was conducted to investigate the water quality of the Trstionica River, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The physicochemical properties (temperature, pH, conductivity, total solids after evaporation at 105 °C), content of metals (calcium (Ca), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), sodium (Na), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn)), and anions (chloride (Cl–), and phosphate (PO43–)) were determined in water samples collected at seven locations during two sampling periods: unstable weather conditions (precipitation), and stable weather conditions (without precipitation). There was a significant difference in the content of individual parameters in the river water depending on the sampling time. For determination of metals concentrations, which were below the limit of detection, a preconcentration method using an ion-exchange resin was applied. The metals concentrations during the rainy day were in the order Ca > Mg > Na > Fe > Cu > Zn > Pb > Mn with mean values of 343, 6.03, 1.94, 0.18, 0.20, 0.03, 0.02, 0.01 mg dm–3, respectively, and during stable weather conditions: Ca > Mg > Na > Cu > Fe > Mn > Zn with mean values of 288, 7.62, 2.38, 0.11, 0.10, 0.01, 0.01 mg dm–3, respectively. Cd, Cr, and Ni concentrations were below limit of detection in both cases. Obtained values were compared with World Health Organization (WHO) regulations. The results showed that the Trstionica River in the investigated part of the stream meets most of the parameters required by the regulations. The correlation between analysed parameters was assessed, as well. Based on the calculated water quality index values, the water of Trstionica River falls into the category of excellent water.


2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
C. Paffoni

Upon the filling of the Seine Centre sewage plant in May 1998, the SIAAP commissioned its first wastewater treatment plant adapted for handling part of the large amounts of rain period surplus water: its flow rate ranges from 2.8 m3/s during dry weather to 12 m3/s in wet weather conditions. Four operational configurations for treating 240,000 m3/day during dry weather, with different quality objectives, and three configurations for treating the rain period surplus water were designed. Immediately upon filling of the plant, however, the operators had to devise innovative configurations for meeting new discharge standards. This paper will aim at demonstrating (considering a major achievement the various aspects of which will be explained) the SIAAP's will to conform in real time, through a dynamic management of its facilities, to the variation of the priorities in the environmental demands, while preserving the quality of the adjacent owners' immediate environment.


2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.M. David ◽  
J.S Matos

Wet weather urban discharges are responsible for bathing water contamination. The proposal for a revised EU Directive concerning the quality of bathing water imposes significantly more stringent requirements for the management of bathing water quality, with particularly important repercussions on beaches subjected to short-term pollution incidents. The paper reviews the aspects from EU legislation most directly related to the problem of wet-weather discharges, placing special emphasis on the recent revision process of the Directive on bathing water quality, and evaluates the benefits of some potential solutions based on continuous modelling of a combined sewer system. Increasing the sewer system storage capacity or the STP hydraulic capacity may substantially reduce the untreated discharge volumes, but spill frequency reductions under 2 to 3 spill days per bathing season will hardly be achieved. Results show the severe strains that local rainfall patterns would place on compliance with the Commission's proposal for a revised Directive and highlight the importance of the changes introduced in the amended proposal recently approved by the Council, making it less prescriptive if adequate measures are adopted to prevent bathers' exposure to short-term pollution incidents.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document