Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management

Sound, practical advice on managing and controlling diffuse source water pollution and watershed management

This new edition of Water Quality provides the latest tools to prevent and abate diffuse pollution, as well as innovative problem–solving approaches for water and soil resources damaged by diffuse pollution. The information and techniques presented here emphasize sustainability, protection, and restoration of resources, while also considering land–use ethics and socioeconomic aspects of abatement and preservation.

This Second Edition′s substantially updated material covers significant advances made in understanding and controlling diffuse pollution, such as key information on atmospheric deposition, pollutant interaction with soils, models for estimating loading of diffuse pollution from land, predicting safe water and soil acceptance of residual pollution, and use of GIS technology. State–of–the–art technical and socioeconomic tools are presented for controlling and abating diffuse pollution in such areas as urban, highway, agricultural, and industrial environments, as well as for managing and restoring streams, lakes, and watersheds. Providing both national and international outlooks, new chapters are included describing the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process, and material in other chapters is extensively updated to reflect the latest regulatory guidelines and new information on major legal decisions.

Water Quality, Second Edition is a valuable reference for environmental engineers, scientists, civil engineers, students of these disciplines, and government and regulatory personnel.

Preface xix

1 Introduction 1

2 Causes of Diffuse Pollution 50

3 Basic Concepts of Diffuse Pollution 104

4 Hydrologic Considerations 134

5 Erosion and Sedimentation 205

6 Soil Pollution and Its Mitigation 259
(Coauthored by Wim Salomons)

7 Groundwater and Base Flow Contamination 328

8 Urban and Highway Diffuse Pollution 374

9 Control of Urban Diffuse Pollution 430
(Coauthored by Neal O Reilly)

10 Abatement of Agricultural Diffuse Pollution 519
(Coauthored by Susan Alexander)

11 Integrated Watershed Management 571

12 Water Body Assessment 626

13 Estimating Loads and Loading Capacity by Models 719

14 Water Body and Watershed Restoration and Waste Assimilative Capacity Enhancement 787

References 841

Appendix 847

Index 849

VLADIMIR NOVOTNY, PhD, PE, is CDM Chair Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also coauthor of Karl Imhoff′s Handbook of Urban Drainage and Wastewater Disposal (with Klaus R. Imhoff, Meint Olthof, and Peter A. Krenkel), published by Wiley.