Experimental results are described to evaluate the diffuse pollution profile according to land use in the catchments and street sweeping as a best management practice (BMP). We studied the variation of pollutant concentrations in outfalls discharging runoff from residential, commercial and high-traffic areas and in street sweeping. Pollution profiles varied with the land use in the catchments a...

Publically accessible pollution databases, such as the Australian National Pollutant Inventory, contain information on chemical emissions released by industrial facility and diffuse sources. They are meant to enable public scrutiny of industrial activity, which in turn, is meant to lead to industries reducing their pollution. In Australia, however, concerns have been consistently raised that th...

This paper presents a multi-criteria based tool for assessing the relative impact of diffuse-source pollution to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) from the river basins draining into the GBR lagoon. The assessment integrates biophysical and ecological data of water quality and pollutant concentrations with socio-economic information pertaining to non-point source pollution and (potential) pollutant ...

Potentially harmful elements (PHE) occur both naturally from geogenic sources and from anthropogenic derived pollution. Anthropogenic sources can be further categorised into those derived from point sources. A point source is a single identifiable source which is confined to a very small area such as that arising from disposal of waste material or from an industrial plant. Diffuse pollution ari...

The virtual elimination of the principal point sources of human bacterial pollution through advanced treatment systems has not produced 100% compliance with microbial standards at all UK bathing water locations where they have been installed. This is partly explained by the existence of diffuse bacterial pollution derived from agricultural activities within catchments draining to the bathing zo...

A deterministic model of economic growth and pollution accumulation, in the form of a system of partial differential equations, is designed and analyzed. The model assumes pollution as a by-product of production. The stock of pollution has a negative impact on production. The accumulation of pollution is dampened by a share of the investments, in the form of an environmental tax. We consider a ...

The REGFLUD-project, commissioned by Germany's Federal Research Ministry (BMBF), addresses the problem of reducing diffuse pollution from agricultural production. The objective of the project is the development and application of multi-criteria scientific methods, which are able to predict diffuse pollution in river basins subject to economic feasibility and social acceptability. The selected r...

Title of Document: USE OF INORGANIC BY-PRODUCT AMENDED COMPOST/MANURE TO SEQUESTER METALS AND PHOSPHORUS FROM DIFFUSE SOURCE POLLUTION Hunho Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor, Allen P. Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Research Scientist, Rufus L. Chaney, ARS, US Department of Agriculture. Heavy metals and nutrients released from diffuse sources by u...

The REGFLUD-project, commissioned by Germany’s Federal Research Ministry (BMBF), addresses the problem of reducing diffuse pollution from agricultural production. The objective of the project is the development and application of multicriteria scientific methods, which are able to predict diffuse pollution in river basins subject to economic feasibility and social acceptability. The selected ri...