WIT Press

Stream Water Quality Models: An Application To The Simeto River Basin

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

19

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

910 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/MMEP970061

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

L. Ciravolo, S. Indelicate & G. Viviani

Abstract

A quality model, QUAL2E, was applied to the Simeto river basin (Sicily). It supplied information about the important predictive role that quality models play in the realisation of plans for water improvement; it was necessary to carry out the following steps in order to apply the model such as: - the study of the activities that influence the stream water and their quality. - the elaboration of specific methodology to evaluate the potential pollution loads. A hypothetical plan for water im

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