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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF UPSTREAM DISCHARGERS ON DOWNSTREAM WATER SUPPLIES: A SOURCE WATER PROTECTION MODEL
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Clark*, R M., J A. Goodrich*, B W. Lykins*, AND J R. Neal*. EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF UPSTREAM DISCHARGERS ON DOWNSTREAM WATER SUPPLIES: A SOURCE WATER PROTECTION MODEL. JOURNAL OF WATER SUPPLY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY. Pergamon Press Ltd., New York, NY, 47(5):215-222, (1998).
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Source water protection is a component of the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act. Drinking water utilities have adopted widely different philosophies for source water protection. the City of New York, with large upland water reservoirs, is investing millions of dollars in land use planning and control, while in contrast, the City of Cincinnati, which uses the Ohio River as its source has spent millions of dollars in state-of-the-art water treatment. The Ohio River represents a special challenge because of the varied nature of water use in the basin, and it has experienced some of the largest inland chemical and industrial spills in the world.
In order to provide utilities on the Ohio River and its tributaries with protection against the contamination of their drinking water, the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) was formed. ORSANCO, in conjunction with the USEPA has developed a spill modelling system based on GIS and water quality models to predict the propagation of spills and point discharges in the Ohio River. Results from the study are discussed in this paper.
For further information on this journal article, please contact the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 26 W. Martin L. King Dr., Mail Stop: G75, Cincinnati, OH 45268