TY - JOUR
T1 - Wastewater quality and pollutant loads in combined sewers during dry weather periods
AU - Gasperi, J.
AU - Kafi-Benyahia, M.
AU - Lorgeoux, C.
AU - Moilleron, R.
AU - Gromaire, M. C.
AU - Chebbo, G.
PY - 2008/12/5
Y1 - 2008/12/5
N2 - An observatory of urban pollutants was created in Paris in order to assess, at the urban catchment scale, the quality of sanitary sewage and pollutant loads during dry weather periods in the Paris combined sewer. Investigations were carried out for six urban catchments (varying from 42 to 2580 ha) focusing on a wide range of parameters, including: suspended solids (SS), chemical and biochemical oxygen demand (COD and BOD5), total organic carbon (TOC), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn), and aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs and PAHs). Despite the marginal intra-site variability of some pollutants, which serves to reflect the impact of point sources, this work attests to the spatial homogeneity, at the physical scales considered, of wastewater quality and pollutant loads within the Paris combined sewer network. These results imply that similar production and transfer processes are occurring within sewers during dry weather periods and strongly suggest that data obtained on one specific catchment could be extrapolated to smaller or larger catchments that display quite similar land use and sewer characteristics.
AB - An observatory of urban pollutants was created in Paris in order to assess, at the urban catchment scale, the quality of sanitary sewage and pollutant loads during dry weather periods in the Paris combined sewer. Investigations were carried out for six urban catchments (varying from 42 to 2580 ha) focusing on a wide range of parameters, including: suspended solids (SS), chemical and biochemical oxygen demand (COD and BOD5), total organic carbon (TOC), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn), and aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs and PAHs). Despite the marginal intra-site variability of some pollutants, which serves to reflect the impact of point sources, this work attests to the spatial homogeneity, at the physical scales considered, of wastewater quality and pollutant loads within the Paris combined sewer network. These results imply that similar production and transfer processes are occurring within sewers during dry weather periods and strongly suggest that data obtained on one specific catchment could be extrapolated to smaller or larger catchments that display quite similar land use and sewer characteristics.
KW - Combined sewer
KW - Dry weather flow
KW - Heavy metals
KW - Hydrocarbons
KW - Organic matter, spatial scale
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/57049114223
U2 - 10.1080/03087290802201415
DO - 10.1080/03087290802201415
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:57049114223
SN - 1573-062X
VL - 5
SP - 305
EP - 314
JO - Urban Water Journal
JF - Urban Water Journal
IS - 4
ER -
