Objective
The main objective of this proposal is to set up an advanced information system for the monitoring and control of water pollution in a river basin. The area selected for the experimentation and the development of the proposed methodologies is the Leather Manufacturing District in Tuscany (Lower Arno Valley). The results of the project will be presented in the form of a Decision Support System (DSS) which will be supplied to the Arno river basin authorities.
The Leather Manufacturing District represents the main source of industrial pollution in the Lower Arno Valley. In the period of minimum flow conditions, the effluents of the centralized waste water treatment plants of the District presents a consistent portion of the total river flowrate and contribute to the high pollution conditions of the river, which are transmitted directly to the river mouth. The objective of the present project is to set up a system to monitor and control pollution in the Lower Arno Valley. The main tasks of the project are as follows:
1. Set up of a Data bank supported by a Geographic Information System (Arc-Info) already available to the proposers and users of the project.
2. Development of a dynamic model of river quality based on hydraulic and biochemical submodels. The overall structure of the river network model will be one-dimensional. However, single modules developed for describing special hydrological and biochemical conditions will have a bi/tridimensional structure.
3. Analysis of pollution methods using the available water reservoirs and/or forced oxygenators installed in positions identified with the model developed in point 2.
The basin management and the optimal use of available pollution data, as well as the measurement campaigns performed for model calibration, will be based on a rule and object oriented expert system which will learn and modify the model parameters on the basis of hydrological and pollution data contained in the Data Bank.
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DEM - Demonstration contractsCoordinator
I - 56125 Pisa
Italy