Los Angeles Infiltration/Inflow Reduction Program
The City of Los Angeles maintains and operates two wastewater collection and treatment systems: the Hyperion System and the Terminal Island System. During the wet months of December through...
A Modified RBC Design: Performance Evaluation
An RBC (rotating biological contactor) system was designed using Pall rings type 40, and tested under high organic surface conditions. Influent soluble BOD averaged at 55 mg/l, equivalent...
Modular Plastic Media for Shallow Bed Trickling Filter Applications
Little specific data is available for less sophisticated trickling filter systems which employ recent plastic media designs for shallow bed filters without the added cost of subsequent...
A Systems Approach for Wasteload Allocations
A methodology for determining an optimal periodic permit for a single discharger situation was developed which accounts for effluent variability, as well as the variability of the receiving...
Fate and Transport of Metals in a River System
A steady-state model was developed that describes the fate of metals in a shallow river system. Settling and resuspension of solids were defined through empirical equations relating a...
The Use of Activated Carbon as a Polishing Step for Treatment of Industrial Plating Wastewaters
An activated carbon adsorption process was utilized as a polishing step following the precipitation (hydroxide or sulfide) process. Zinc and cadmium were the metals studied. Since plating...
Direct Filtration of a Semiconductor Wastewater
A pilot plant study was conducted to determine the feasibility of direct filtration for the removal of metal precipitates from a semiconductor manufacturing wastewater. The pH of the acidic...
Factors Influencing Zinc Cementation of Cadmium
The research reported here examines an innovative procedure for removal of cadmium from wastewaters. This process is the cementation of cadmium by zinc metal. Cementation is highly attractive...
The Adsorption Characteristics of NI (II) Onto Bubble Surface
The removal of Ni(II) by foam fractionation is brought about by the electrostatic mechanism. From removal and zeta potential measurements, it clearly demonstrates that Ni**2** plus and...
Wetland Protection Regulations: A Technical Perspective
This paper summarizes the technical basis for the application of wetland protection regulatory schemes upon a number of typical environmental engineering and related projects. A number...
Town Lake: An Environmental Impact Assessment
The City of Dallas, Texas, had little experience with environmental impact assessments of major capital improvements projects. Yet when deciding whether to build a 110,000,000 urban lake,...
Age-Specific Cancer Risk Analysis for a Population Exposed to Contaminated Drinking Water
Recent developments in the methodology for estimating cancer risk for environmental contaminants exhibit promise for improved predictability of risk analyses based on EPA risk guidelines....
Saving Time and Money with Archaeology
In the past 20 years, archaeology has become a necessary part of many engineering projects. However, this aspect of a project is often regarded as an obstacle in terms of costs and time....
A Computer Aided Approach to Missing Time-Series Data Replacement
The objective of this research is to design, construct, and demonstrate a computer utility which will interactively aid the time series researcher in choosing an appropriate missing data...
Impacts of Stormwater Runoff on Receiving Waters
A planning methodology to assess the impact of stormwater runoff on streams in Vermont is demonstrated. The methodology, which is based on a statistical representation of runoff and stream...
Measurement of Activated Sludge Rheology
Rheological measurements provide fundamental information on the physical properties of activated sludge. Such properties influence the behavior of activated sludge in wastewater and sludge...
Understanding Secondary Clarifier Behavior
The author has developed a graphic procedure for analyzing the hydraulic behavior of settling tanks. Data have been used in numerous cases to devise low cost in-tank and external improvements...
Treatment of the Wastewater From the Alkaline Cooking of Maize in an RBC System
The liquid waste resulting from cooking and washing of maize is called nejayote or nexayote. The soluble COD concentration of this waste ranges from 10,000 to 20,000 mg/l. In an effort...
Program for Control of Petroleum Refinery Wastewater
The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (LACSD) provide wastewater treatment services to approximately four million residents and eight thousand industrial companies. Large and...
Maintenance Management for a Large Urban Waterworks System
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC) owns and operates a water distribution system consisting of 86,000 customer accounts and 1,100 miles of water mains. In 1984, BWSC initiated...
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