Water Quality: Prevention, Identification, and Management of Diffuse Pollution (Environmental Engineering) - Hardcover

Vladimir; Olem Harvey Novotny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442005598 ISBN 13: 9780442005597

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Provides all new material on urban, industrial, and highway pollution, as well as on management and restoration of streams, lakes, and watershed management techniques.* Includes revised chapters on agricultural diffuse pollution; control of urban, highway, and industrial diffuse pollution; and wetlands considerations.* All regulatory data is up to date, with new material provided on judicial law based on significant decisions made in recent years.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

VLADIMIR NOVOTNY is professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering; chairman of the Environmental and Water Resources Committee at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and president of AquaNova International, Ltd., an environmental consulting firm. Dr. Novotny has chaired and organized several important conferences in the field of pollution control. He is also a chairman of the international specialists’ group within the International Association on Water Quality that deals with diffuse pollution. He has written or co-written numerous books and papers, including Handbook of Nonpoint Pollution: Sources and Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. HARVEY OLEM is director of the Center for Watershed Protection and president of Olem Associates. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Environmental Pollution Control from Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Liming Acidic Surface Waters and numerous articles and reports.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442005598
• ISBN 13: 9780442005597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1054