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Mitigating the Ecological Effects of Riverbank Filtration
Author(s) -
Kendy Eloise,
Bredehoeft John
Publication year - 2007
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.1551-8833.2007.tb08090.x
Subject(s) - filtration (mathematics) , vegetation (pathology) , floodplain , environmental science , water supply , hydrology (agriculture) , ecology , environmental resource management , water resource management , environmental engineering , engineering , mathematics , biology , geotechnical engineering , medicine , statistics , pathology
This article begins by explaining the practice of riverbank filtration (RBF) as a means of naturally prefiltering river water for municipal supply. It discusses how optimal well placement can be a trade‐off between high well yield and thorough filtration, along with the ecological effects of RBF, the water requirements of floodplain vegetation, and options for mitigating the effect of a large RBF well.