sewer overflow control Articles
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Determination of the vertical velocity distribution of floatables in CSOs
ABSTRACTControl of floatables, since April 1994, is one of the nine minimum controls required by the U.S.EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) for CSO (Combined Sewer Overflows) control policy compliance. Municipalities must control and intercept floatables at their overflow sites. Efficient interception of these floatables requires prior characterisation. To accomplish this ...
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Evaluation of effectiveness of combined sewer overflow control measures by operational data
The effect of combined sewer overflow (CSO) control measures should be validated during operation based on monitoring of CSO activity and subsequent comparison with (legal) requirements. However, most CSO monitoring programs have been started only recently and therefore no long-term data is available for reliable efficiency control. A method is proposed that focuses on rainfall data for ...
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Combined sewer overflow control with LID based on SWMM: an example in Shanghai, China
Although low impact development (LID) has been commonly applied across the developed countries for mitigating the negative impacts of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) on urban hydrological environment, it has not been widely used in developing countries yet. In this paper, a typical combined sewer system in an urbanized area of Shanghai, China was used to demonstrate how to design and choose CSO ...
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Reducing CSOs and giving the river back to the public: innovative combined sewer overflow control and riverbanks restoration of the St Charles River in Quebec City
After the construction of its wastewater treatment plants, the City of Quebec began to implement overflow control in wet weather to ultimately meet the effluent discharge objectives, i.e. no more than two overflows per summer season in the St. Lawrence River and no more than four in the St-Charles River. After several years of studies to determine which management strategies would best suit the ...
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Water management in cities of the future using emission control strategies for priority hazardous substances
Cities of the future face challenges with respect to the quantity and quality of water resources, and multiple managerial options need to be considered in order to safeguard urban surface water quality. In a recently completed project on ‘Source control options for reducing emissions of Priority Pollutants’ (ScorePP), seven emission control strategies (ECSs) were developed and tested within a ...
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Water quality at Blue Plains improved case study
The Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington D.C. is the largest advanced wastewater treatment plant in the world. The District of Columbia’s Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) operates the plant. LimnoTech’s expertise in sewer system and river modeling helped WASA make decisions about two complex programs: combined sewer overflow (CSO) control to improve local water ...
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Watershed characterization and planning to help District meet consent decree case study
Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky has signed the nation’s first wet weather consent decree based on the principles of adaptive watershed management. LimnoTech is working with the District, its gray and green infrastructure consultants, and stakeholders to develop watershed plans that meet requirements of the consent decree for sewer overflows. Problem The District must develop ...
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CSO management from an operator's perspective: a step-wise action plan
Combined sewer overflows (CSO) are the “ugly ducklings” of urban wastewater infrastructure, rather unknown, rarely loved. Contrary to wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) where, commonly, process parameters are carefully registered, still relatively little is known about the spill behaviour of CSOs. In spite of the considerable bandwidth of pollution magnitude reported in literature, it can be ...
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