Turbidity Removal during a Subsurface Movement of Source Water: Case Study from Haridwar, India
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 16, Issue 1
Abstract
Due to an increase in deforestation and construction activities in the Himalayan region, there is an increase in sediment laden flow in many rivers, such as the Ganges, which originate from the Himalayan region. Many cities, located along these rivers, withdraw river water through abstraction wells located close to river banks and it is of growing interest to know how the sediment load increase in the source water may affect the turbidity, also a measure of sediment load, in the abstracted water. With this in mind, a study has been carried out to assess the variation of turbidity in the source water and the abstracted water at a river bank filtration site in Haridwar, located on the bank of the River Ganges and at the foothills of the Himalayas, for the period 2005–2006. It is found that the turbidity removal coefficient varies with the natural logarithm of influent concentration of the source water. A theoretical development, based on the use of the Sakthivadivel and Einstein model, is also provided to justify the removal coefficient’s logarithmic variation with the influent concentration.
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Acknowledgments
The work reported herein utilizes the data collected during E.U.-India ECCP project in which several partners from Europe and India participated. The data reported herein were collected by Mr. Aseem Kumar Thakur, a cowriter in the paper. He was assisted by Cornellius Sandhu in data collection in the intial stages and he would like to acknowledge his help. The first writer would like to acknowledge the help of European partners, mainly Professor T. Grischek, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, W. Rauch, and B. Wett at University of Innsbruck, Austria for their input in the data collection as well as selection of RBF site. The help of Professor C. Ray at University of Hawaii, United States and financial support of E.U. and DST are also gratefully acknowledged. The help of Dr. Bhism Kumar, Incharge, Isotope Division, NIH, Roorkee, India and Dr. O.P. Dubey, IRI, Roorkee, who allowed the use of the NIH isotope laboratory and helped in the interpretation of results for travel time estimation, is also gratefully acknowledged.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • January 2011
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Received: Dec 30, 2008
Accepted: Apr 22, 2010
Published online: Apr 27, 2010
Published in print: Jan 2011
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