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Mar 1981
River Quality Model for Urban Stormwater Impacts
Authors: Miguel A. Medina Jr., M.ASCE, Wayne C. Huber, James P. Heaney, AM.ASCE, and Richard FieldAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Journal of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division
Volume 107, Issue 1
Abstract
A simplified continuous receiving water quality model has been developed as a planning guide to permit preliminary screening of areawide wastewater management strategies. The model simulates the hypothetical response of the stream or tidal river system to the separate and combined effects of waste inputs from upstream sources, dry-weather urban sources and wet-weather urban sources. The total hours of runoff-producing rainfall throughout a year are separated into storm events. For a given storm event, the runoff and pollutant loads are summarized, and critical dissolved oxygen concentrations are estimated as a function of several hydrodynamic and biochemical parameters. An application to the Des Moines River at Des Moines, Iowa, is presented.
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Journal of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division
Volume 107 • Issue 1 • March 1981
Pages: 263 - 290
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© 1981 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Mar 1981
Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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Miguel A. Medina Jr., M.ASCE
Asst. Prof. of Civ. Engrg., Duke Univ., Durham, N.C. 27706
Wayne C. Huber
Prof. of Environmental Engrg. Sciences, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601
James P. Heaney, AM.ASCE
Prof. of Environmental Engrg. Sciences, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601
Richard Field
Chf., Storm and Combined Sewer Sect., Municipal Environmental Research Lab., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Edison, N.J.
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