Water quality : diffuse pollution and watershed management / Vladimir Novotny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novotny, Vladimir, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Pollution.

Water.

Water quality management.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 864 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, [2003]

Summary:

Provides all new material on urban, industrial, and highway pollution, as well as on management and restoration of streams, lakes, and watershed management techniques. * Includes revised chapters on agricultural diffuse pollution; control of urban, highway, and industrial diffuse pollution; and wetlands considerations. * All regulatory data is up to date, with new material provided on judicial law based on significant decisions made in recent years.

Contents:

Historical Perspectives and Trends in Environmental Degradation and Abatement 1

Important Regulations for Diffuse Pollution Control 38

2 Causes of Diffuse Pollution 50

Socioeconomic Causes of Diffuse Pollution 51

Environmental Policies of Diffuse Pollution Abatement: The Ten Commandments 61

Water Use and Water Rights 68

Ultimate and Proximate Causes of Diffuse Pollution 71

Land-Use Transformation 76

Socioeconomic Solutions 94

3 Basic Concepts of Diffuse Pollution 104

Watershed and Drainage 104

Types of Diffuse Pollution Loads and Transport Routes 107

Statistical Characteristics of Diffuse Loads and Water Quality 118

Diffuse Pollution Management and Targeting Critical Areas 130

4 Hydrologic Considerations 134

Precipitation 135

Precipitation-Runoff Relationship: Pathways 147

Rainfall Excess Determination: Surface Runoff 161

Overland Routing of Precipitation Excess 170

Impact of Imperviousness and Drainage on Watershed Hydrology 190

Groundwater Systems 196

5 Erosion and Sedimentation 205

Erosion as a Major Nonpoint Pollution Problem 205

Definitions and Description of the Erosion Process 208

Soil Characteristics 216

Estimating Erosion 218

Sediment Delivery and Enrichment Processes during Overland Flow 233

Sediment Transport in Streams 240

Erosion Control for Pollution Reduction 246

6 Soil Pollution and Its Mitigation / Coauthored by Wim Salomons 259

Buildup, Release, and Distribution of Pollutants in Soils and Sediments 264

Specific Pollutant Interactions 279

Long-Term Changes in Soil Pollution: Capacity-Controlling Parameters 310

How to Predict Long-Term Mobility and Manage Stored Pollutants 319

7 Groundwater and Base Flow Contamination 328

Groundwater (Base Flow) and Diffuse Pollution 328

Groundwater Storage and Movement 334

Origin of Natural Groundwater (Base Flow) Quality 346

Impact of Diffuse Pollution on Groundwater and Base Flow 353

Groundwater Quality Models 365

Cleanup of Contaminated Groundwater 369

8 Urban and Highway Diffuse Pollution 374

Causes of Pollution 374

Urban Drainage 377

Land-Use Effects on Urban Diffuse Pollution Loads 385

Urban Sources and Magnitude of Diffuse Pollution 387

Individual Sources of Pollution 393

Runoff Pollution Generation Process 407

Combined Sewer Overflows 420

9 Control of Urban Diffuse Pollution / Coauthored by Neal O'Reilly 430

Pollution Control Measures 430

Source Control Measures 433

Hydrologic Modifications 444

Attenuation and Reduction of Delivery of Pollutants from Sources to the Receiving Water Body 453

Collection System Pollution Control 456

Detention-Retention Facilities 468

Wetlands 488

Pollution Treatment 497

Efficiency of Best Management Practices for Control of Priority Pollutants 501

Conclusions on BMP Efficiencies 504

Real-Time Control of CSOs 506

Stormwater Reuse 509

10 Abatement of Agricultural Diffuse Pollution (Coauthored by Susan Alexander) 519

Agriculture and the Environment 520

Agriculture and Its Effect on the Environment 528

Best Management Practices: Implementation and Effectiveness 539

Balancing Agricultural Production with Environmental Protection 556

Addressing Underlying Causes: A Possible Global Solution 563

11 Integrated Watershed Management 571

Multiobjective Integrated Watershed Management 572

Watershed Management in the Context of the Clean Water Act 580

Total Maximum Daily Load Process 588

Implementation of Watershed Management 602

Adaptive Implementation and Management 604

Financing Diffuse Pollution Abatement Programs 606

Organizational Structure: Institutions 619

12 Water Body Assessment 626

Monitoring and Data Acquisition 626

Toxicity Testing 636

Water Quality Standards 641

Aquatic Ecosystem 648

Assessing Biological Integrity 656

Assessing Physical-Habitat Integrity 663

Assessing Chemical Integrity of Streams 678

Nutrient Problem of Lakes: Eutrophication 687

pH and Acidity 698

Toxic (Priority) Pollutants 702

Ecological Risk 707

Natural (Background) Water Quality 710

13 Estimating Loads and Loading Capacity by Models 719

Calibration and Verification of Models 727

Loading Models for Diffuse and Background Loads 729

Receiving Waters Modeling 748

Modeling Fate of Toxic Compounds in Receiving Water Bodies 764

Monte Carlo Modeling 768

Developing the Waste Assimilative (Loading) Capacity 777

14 Water Body and Watershed Restoration and Waste Assimilative Capacity Enhancement 787

Restoration Versus Reclamation, Rehabilitation, and Management 790

Restoration Techniques for Lotic Water Bodies (Rivers and Streams) 791

Restoration Techniques for Lentic Systems (Lakes and Reservoirs) 812

Riparian Wetland Restoration 826.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0471396338

OCLC:

50228639