The process of urban-rural integration has led to severe ecological environmental pollution in rural areas of China, particularly in the economically-developed areas. This is an urgent issue to be solved. We select Jiangsu Province as a case study. From the perspective of the population, economic scale, energy consumption and financial support, we perform an empirical study of rural non-point s...

In the UK, the recycling of sewage sludge to land is expected to double by 2006 but the security of this route is threatened by environmental concerns and health scares. Strategic investment is needed to ensure sustainable and secure sludge recycling outlets. At present, the security of this landbank for sludge recycling is determined by legislation relating to nutrient rather than potentially ...

A model was developed to estimate total suspended solids (TSS) removal in the Stormceptor, an oil/sediment separator. The model was based on a commonly used continuous simulation model (USEPA SWMM) for hydrological processes. The suspended solids’ loading was estimated using build-up and wash-off equations. The solids were assumed to be distributed into five particle sizes for settling calculat...

Surface runoff and sediment transport in ̄uence soil quality and the quality of receiving waters. Simulation models are useful tools to describe drainage behavior and sediment yield to develop management strategies for agricultural waters. The objective of this study was to investigate the performance of the Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Model (AGNPS) and modi®ed versions comparing mea...

The US EPA has reported non-point source pollution (NPS), which includes eroded sediments, toxic contaminants, nutrients, debris, and other pollutants, to be the number one threat to surface water quality nationwide. Numerous studies have established a direct relationship between the amount of impervious surface within a watershed and pollution of its surface waters. However, without detailed d...

Overview This paper presents the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a Decision Support System (DSS) for NonPoint Source (NPS) pollution control on watershed scales. The GUI and all components of the DSS are entirely embedded in ERDAS IMAGINE and the system is launched from the main toolbar. The system uses IMAGINE's GIS functions for data storage and pre−processing, SML for hydr...