Le bassin versant experimental urbain du Marais a Paris: origine et caracteristiques de la pollution des eaux pluviales urbaines en reseau d'assainissement unitaire

An experimental urban catchment has been created in the centre of Paris, in order to obtain a description of the pollution of urban wet weather flows at different levels of the combined sewer system, and to estimate the contribution of runoff, waste waster and sewer sediments to this pollution, Thirty-six rainfall events were studied from may to December 1996. Dry weather flow was monitered for one week. Roof, street and yard runoff, total flow at the catchment outlet and waster water were anlaysed for SS, VSS, COD and BOD5, on both toal and dissolved fraction. Results show an evolution in the characteristics of wet weather flow from up to downstream: concentrations increase from the catchment entry to the outlet, as well as the proportion of particle-bound pollutants and the part of organic matter. A first evaluation of the different sources of pollution establishes that a major part of wet weather flow pollution originates from inside the combined sewer, probably through erosion of sewer sediments.