Water Pollution V: Conference Proceedings 5th

Keynote Address: Modelling hydrodynamic, sediment and contaminant transport processes in coastal and estuarine waters. Section 1 - Wastewater Treatment and Sewage Systems: Hydraulic characteristics of sewage treatment units; Wastewater treatment using grass filtration; Comparative study of UV-activated processes for the degradation of organic pollutants in water; Performance of chitosan as a primary coagulant for the wastewater treatment; A study of the recirculation of landfill leachate in a MSW pilot plant; Common problems in wastewater treatment plants function; Overflow rate of high-rate settlers; Sewage outfalls in the channel area: the Zadar and Pasman channels (east Adriatic); Economical impact of sewage systems rehabilitation in Italy; Nutrient balances, sludge production and sludge stabilisation at different waste water treatment technologies. Section 2 - Mathematical and Physical Modelling: Two-dimensional modelling of free surface flows: experiences and practical applications; The use of fuzzy logic for the study of water pollution in the Thermaikos Gulf. Section 3 - Modelling as a Management Tool: Modelling and management hand in hand; RIOVAL: A management tool for water quality modelling in small streams; Uncertainty management through stochastic modelling; Decision Support System: A concept for success in coastal sea quality management? Section 4 - Saltwater Intrusion: Saline water intrusion monitoring and control at Guves Prefecture - Crete; Saline intrusion with change in tidal range. Section 5 - Biological Effects: Advantage of leachate recirculation on municipal solid waste biodegradation: experimental and field results; Distribution and survival of enteric bacteria in the littoral zone of Lake Kinneret. Section 6 - Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modelling: Subsurface transport modeling using adaptive finite elements; Modelling water quality in European rivers; Construction and calibration of an integrated urban drainage model; Operating diagnostics on a flocculator-settling tank using Fluent CFD software; Lessons learned by modelling impounded river water quality with QUAL2E. Section 7 - Chemical and Nuclear Pollution: Uranium in groundwaters from Botucatu-Piramb?ia aquifer, Brazil; Treatment of stormwater runoff from highways - design failures. Section 8 - Pollution of Estuaries, Coastal Seas and Open Seas: Water quality monitoring in Strymonikos Gulf and Gulf of Ierissos, Northern Greece; The quantification of atmospheric deposition of nutrients, and some regulatory repercussions; Distribution of chlorobenzenes and hexachlorobutadiene in surficial sediments of Kaohsiung Coast, Taiwan; Practical application of neural networks to predict DO concentration; Comparison between experimental and theoretical assessment of phosphorous and nitrogen loadings flowing into a coastal lagoon; Sanitary quality of beaches by a data mining approach. Section 9 - Experimental and Laboratory Work: Experimental validation of a zero-dimensional water quality model for small tidal harbours; Effect of artificial macro roughness in very steep sewers. Section 10 - Lakes, Rivers and Channels: Dynamics of settling velocity distribution of suspended particulate matter during sedimentation processes in rivers; Investigation of pollutant budgets by long-term numerical simulation: a case study on the Neckar River, Germany; Algal development of the Cunovo Reservoir on the River Danube; Accumulation of the persistent organic pollutants in the food chain of the lake Baikal; Co-60 transfer from water to the freshwater planktonic algae Selenastrum capricornutum Prinz; Monitoring and control of pollution processes in reservoirs. Section 11 - Heavy Metals: A novel approach for modeling heavy metal sorption to heterogeneous media under batch and column settings; Distribution of Hg, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in surface sediments from the coastal region of the central Adriatic. Section 12 - Groundwater and Aquifer Contamination: Electric current and potential variations during electrokinetic removal of heavy metal from aquifer; Two-phase model for transport and biodegradation in a saturated porous media; Pollution of Tehran groundwater; Mapping the water quality of the Puelchense subaquifer in Lujun (Argentina); Design implications of the distribution of pollutants in collection and storage systems used in small rural water supplies. Section 13 - Organic Contaminants: The aqueous chlorination of the structural fragments of humic matter; Permeameter desorption study on contaminated soils by organic compounds. Section 14 - Oil Spills: Estimating rates of oil spills in the Egyptian ports and application 537 of the technology of "windows-of-opportunity" in combating; Numerical simulation of hypothetical oil spills at the Casablanca Oil Platform, NW Mediterranean. Section 15 - Additional Papers: Experimental study of "periphyton-flow" interactions; Hydroecological modelling of the Garonne River (South-West of France); Potential use of expert systems and optimisation techniques in water resources planning.