The importance of pollutional loads during wet weather
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https://doi.org/10.15626/Eco-Tech.1999.031Keywords:
Combined sewer overflows, wet weather discharges, the relative importance, pollutionAbstract
Wet weather discharges consist mainly of washed out surface pollution in separate sewered areas, but in combined sewered areas; resuspended pipe deposits, surface washoff and sewage, discharging via combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Of the three mentioned sources, resuspended pipe solids is dominating over the other two and may contribute as much as 50 to 90 % of the total amount of the CSO. The CSO in a normal catchment may also on an annual bases be of the same amount, or even twice as much as the effluent from the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). If the receiving waters are vulnerable to shock loads on a daily base, it is important to be aware that the amount of CSO might, at its most adverse be up to I 00 times more than the effluent from the WWTP during a day. The annual discharge via CSOs in a catchment may easily vary with a factor of up to 8 from the driest to the wettest year, during time series of 20 to 40 years.
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