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Estimating the Effects of Return Flows
Author(s) -
Wells Dan M.,
Gloyna Earnest F.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1967.tb03416.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , water quality , wastewater , drainage , subdivision , quality (philosophy) , hydrology (agriculture) , water resource management , environmental engineering , civil engineering , engineering , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , ecology , epistemology , biology
The objectives and procedures of this study were to: estimate present and projected water requirements for municipal and industrial use in Texas; determine where these requirements might be expressed, both on the basis of political and other arbitrary subdivisions of the state, and on the basis of drainage basins; based on items 1 and 2, to determine the present and projected quantity and location of return flows; estimate the quality of wastewater releases; estimate the effect of increasing quantities of return flow on selected receiving waters; determine treatment levels required to meet various assumed future quality criteria; and, develop computational models that can be used as aids in making policy decisions regarding water quality criteria. Present and projected water requirements were developed by the Bureau of Business Research of the University of Texas, in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board. Present municipal use was obtained largely from available Texas Water Development Board records, but no such complete records of industrial use were available.