Assessment of spill flow emissions on the basis of measured precipitation and waste water data |
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Authors: | Martin Hochedlinger Günter Gruber Harald Kainz |
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Institution: | Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering, Stremayrgasse 10, A-8010 Graz, Austria |
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Abstract: | Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are substantial contributors to the total emissions into surface water bodies. The emitted pollution results from dry-weather waste water loads, surface runoff pollution and from the remobilisation of sewer deposits and sewer slime during storm events. One possibility to estimate overflow loads is a calculation with load quantification models. Input data for these models are pollution concentrations, e.g. Total Chemical Oxygen Demand (CODtot), Total Suspended Solids (TSS) or Soluble Chemical Oxygen Demand (CODsol), rainfall series and flow measurements for model calibration and validation. It is important for the result of overflow loads to model with reliable input data, otherwise this inevitably leads to bad results. In this paper the correction of precipitation measurements and the sewer online-measurements are presented to satisfy the load quantification model requirements already described. The main focus is on tipping bucket gauge measurements and their corrections. The results evidence the importance of their corrections due the effects on load quantification modelling and show the difference between corrected and not corrected data of storm events with high rain intensities. |
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Keywords: | Combined sewer overflow Sewer-online measurements Overflow loads Tipping bucket gauge Weighing gauge |
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