The Control and Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflows

Control and Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflows Second EditionEdited by Peter E. Moffa In cities where storm and sanitary sewersare operated as one system, storm runoff overflows remain the mostcommon potential source of untreated human waste in the watersupply--and the single biggest obstacle to achieving theswimmability goals of the 1972 Clean Water Act Amendments.Communities upgrading old systems in order to provide safe,EPA-compliant water to their growing populations face bothlogistical and financial challenges. Yet, in the last decadesignificant advances in combined sewage overflow (CSO) abatementhave been realized. The National CSO Control Strategy was publishedin 1989, with the final CSO policy approved in 1994. The EPA hasintensified research and development; receiving-water impacts havebeen quantified; more cost-effective plans, prototypes, andfacilities have been tested and implemented; and the water suppliesin over a dozen U.S. cities are showing dramatically diminished CSOpollution levels. This revised edition of Control and Treatment ofCombined Sewer Overflows takes into account recent advances inresearch, planning, and practice to be the single mostauthoritative and up-to-date resource on CSO abatement. Written byexpert CSO consultant Peter Moffa and a contributing team of topengineers, the book provides both the mathematical and analyticaltools necessary for modeling current sewer systems and developingworkable CSO abatement strategies. Control and Treatment ofCombined Sewer Overflows, Second Edition Features:
* A condensed overview of federal CSO policy (watershed)
* Guidelines for minimum control, long-term control planning,screening and ranking, project funding, CSO monitoring andmodeling, and performance measurement
* Fully updated discussions of mathematical models for combinedsewer systems
* A wide range of practical control and treatment technologysystems--many developed since 1989, and
* Recent Case Studies--a complete section on cost-effect analysisshowing how a number of U.S. cities enact effective storage,abatement, and disinfection plans.
This edition features new case studies on Rouge River, Charlotte,NC, and Decatur, IL, plus updated reports from Onondaga County, NY,and Washington, DC. Control and Treatment of Combined SewerOverflows, Second Edition is an essential reference for wastewaterand sanitary engineers, as well as city planners and administratorsresponsible for wastewater treatment. It is also the ideal textbookfor advanced undergraduate and graduate students in wastewater andenvironmental engineering.