Chapter 3
Receiving Water Quality Models
Publication: Total Maximum Daily Load Development and Implementation: Models, Methods, and Resources
Abstract
This chapter presents a review of some of the most widely used receiving water quality models for total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) to simulate eutrophication processes including carbon and nutrient cycling, phytoplankton dynamics, dissolved oxygen, and fate and transport of toxic chemicals and mercury. ICM can simulate water quality responses to point and nonpoint source loads and can be used as part of TMDL modeling. The Water Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) was initially developed as a transport code with water quality subroutines. The WASP model is typically coupled to hydrologic and hydrodynamic models to simulate complex large-scale ecosystems. The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) is a surface water model with hydrodynamic and water quality modeling capabilities. The EFDC model has been widely used in more than 100 modeling studies of aquatic ecosystems around the world and in multiple TMDL studies.
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Editors: Harry X. Zhang, Ph.D., Nigel W.T. Quinn, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3333-4763, Deva K. Borah, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2107-9390, and G. Padmanabhan, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-1379
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Published online: Feb 24, 2022
Published in print: Mar 1, 2022
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Chemical processes
- Chemistry
- Clean Water Act
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Dissolved oxygen
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Hydrologic models
- Models (by type)
- Simulation models
- Standards and codes
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water quality
- Water supply
- Water supply systems
- Water treatment
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