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Simon Jude - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Leveraging Big Data Tools and Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the Water Quality Sector
Sustainability, 2017Co-Authors: Juan Manuel Ponce Romero, Stephen H. Hallett, Simon JudeAbstract:The Water Utility sector is subject to stringent legislation, seeking to address both the evolution of practices within the chemical/pharmaceutical Industry, and the safeguarding of environmental protection, and which is informed by stakeholder views. Growing public environmental awareness is balanced by fair apportionment of liability within-sector. This highly complex and dynamic context poses challenges for Water utilities seeking to manage the diverse chemicals arising from disparate sources reaching WasteWater Treatment Plants, including residential, commercial, and industrial points of origin, and diffuse sources including agricultural and hard surface Water run-off. Effluents contain broad ranges of organic and inorganic compounds, herbicides, pesticides, phosphorus, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals of emerging concern. These potential pollutants can be in dissolved form, or arise in association with organic matter, the associated risks posing significant environmental challenges. This paper examines how the adoption of new Big Data tools and computational technologies can offer great advantage to the Water Utility sector in addressing this challenge. Big Data approaches facilitate improved understanding and insight of these challenges, by Industry, regulator, and public alike. We discuss how Big Data approaches can be used to improve the outputs of tools currently in use by the Water Industry, such as SAGIS (Source Apportionment GIS system), helping to reveal new relationships between chemicals, the environment, and human health, and in turn provide better understanding of contaminants in wasteWater (origin, pathways, and persistence). We highlight how the sector can draw upon Big Data tools to add value to legacy datasets, such as the Chemicals Investigation Programme in the UK, combined with contemporary data sources, extending the lifespan of data, focusing monitoring strategies, and helping users adapt and plan more efficiently. Despite the relative maturity of the Big Data technology and adoption in many wider sectors, uptake within the Water Utility sector remains limited to date. By contrast with the extensive range of applications of Big Data in in other sectors, highlight is drawn to how improvements are required to achieve the full potential of this technology in the Water Utility Industry
Ron Collins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Blending and post-treatment protocols for SDWA compliance — Hollywood (FL) Water plant
Desalination, 1995Co-Authors: Bruce M. Watson, C.d. Hornburg, Ron CollinsAbstract:Abstract In 1988 the City of Hollywood, Florida prepared a 10-year Water supply and treatment plan as a condition for renewal of its permit for consumptive use of the Biscayne Aquifer as raw supply to the City's 37.5 mgd lime softening plant. The three-phase plan which was adopted involves staged replacement of obsolescent softeners and filters with RO membranes, using both the Biscayne and the deeper, better contained, but brackish Floridan Aquifer as raw Water supplies. Operating and blending protocols had to be developed which would ensure at all times during and after project implementation: Satisfaction of public Water demand; Water quality in compliance, present and future; Eastern Biscayne Aquifer withdrawal at or below current permitted amounts, with eventual curtailment; and residuals and concentrate disposal effected in an environmentally acceptable manner. These operating constraints, plus the unusual requirements for blending control make this project an important and instructive prototype for our changing Water Utility Industry.
Juan Manuel Ponce Romero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Leveraging Big Data Tools and Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the Water Quality Sector
Sustainability, 2017Co-Authors: Juan Manuel Ponce Romero, Stephen H. Hallett, Simon JudeAbstract:The Water Utility sector is subject to stringent legislation, seeking to address both the evolution of practices within the chemical/pharmaceutical Industry, and the safeguarding of environmental protection, and which is informed by stakeholder views. Growing public environmental awareness is balanced by fair apportionment of liability within-sector. This highly complex and dynamic context poses challenges for Water utilities seeking to manage the diverse chemicals arising from disparate sources reaching WasteWater Treatment Plants, including residential, commercial, and industrial points of origin, and diffuse sources including agricultural and hard surface Water run-off. Effluents contain broad ranges of organic and inorganic compounds, herbicides, pesticides, phosphorus, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals of emerging concern. These potential pollutants can be in dissolved form, or arise in association with organic matter, the associated risks posing significant environmental challenges. This paper examines how the adoption of new Big Data tools and computational technologies can offer great advantage to the Water Utility sector in addressing this challenge. Big Data approaches facilitate improved understanding and insight of these challenges, by Industry, regulator, and public alike. We discuss how Big Data approaches can be used to improve the outputs of tools currently in use by the Water Industry, such as SAGIS (Source Apportionment GIS system), helping to reveal new relationships between chemicals, the environment, and human health, and in turn provide better understanding of contaminants in wasteWater (origin, pathways, and persistence). We highlight how the sector can draw upon Big Data tools to add value to legacy datasets, such as the Chemicals Investigation Programme in the UK, combined with contemporary data sources, extending the lifespan of data, focusing monitoring strategies, and helping users adapt and plan more efficiently. Despite the relative maturity of the Big Data technology and adoption in many wider sectors, uptake within the Water Utility sector remains limited to date. By contrast with the extensive range of applications of Big Data in in other sectors, highlight is drawn to how improvements are required to achieve the full potential of this technology in the Water Utility Industry
Stephen H. Hallett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Leveraging Big Data Tools and Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the Water Quality Sector
Sustainability, 2017Co-Authors: Juan Manuel Ponce Romero, Stephen H. Hallett, Simon JudeAbstract:The Water Utility sector is subject to stringent legislation, seeking to address both the evolution of practices within the chemical/pharmaceutical Industry, and the safeguarding of environmental protection, and which is informed by stakeholder views. Growing public environmental awareness is balanced by fair apportionment of liability within-sector. This highly complex and dynamic context poses challenges for Water utilities seeking to manage the diverse chemicals arising from disparate sources reaching WasteWater Treatment Plants, including residential, commercial, and industrial points of origin, and diffuse sources including agricultural and hard surface Water run-off. Effluents contain broad ranges of organic and inorganic compounds, herbicides, pesticides, phosphorus, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals of emerging concern. These potential pollutants can be in dissolved form, or arise in association with organic matter, the associated risks posing significant environmental challenges. This paper examines how the adoption of new Big Data tools and computational technologies can offer great advantage to the Water Utility sector in addressing this challenge. Big Data approaches facilitate improved understanding and insight of these challenges, by Industry, regulator, and public alike. We discuss how Big Data approaches can be used to improve the outputs of tools currently in use by the Water Industry, such as SAGIS (Source Apportionment GIS system), helping to reveal new relationships between chemicals, the environment, and human health, and in turn provide better understanding of contaminants in wasteWater (origin, pathways, and persistence). We highlight how the sector can draw upon Big Data tools to add value to legacy datasets, such as the Chemicals Investigation Programme in the UK, combined with contemporary data sources, extending the lifespan of data, focusing monitoring strategies, and helping users adapt and plan more efficiently. Despite the relative maturity of the Big Data technology and adoption in many wider sectors, uptake within the Water Utility sector remains limited to date. By contrast with the extensive range of applications of Big Data in in other sectors, highlight is drawn to how improvements are required to achieve the full potential of this technology in the Water Utility Industry
Bruce M. Watson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Blending and post-treatment protocols for SDWA compliance — Hollywood (FL) Water plant
Desalination, 1995Co-Authors: Bruce M. Watson, C.d. Hornburg, Ron CollinsAbstract:Abstract In 1988 the City of Hollywood, Florida prepared a 10-year Water supply and treatment plan as a condition for renewal of its permit for consumptive use of the Biscayne Aquifer as raw supply to the City's 37.5 mgd lime softening plant. The three-phase plan which was adopted involves staged replacement of obsolescent softeners and filters with RO membranes, using both the Biscayne and the deeper, better contained, but brackish Floridan Aquifer as raw Water supplies. Operating and blending protocols had to be developed which would ensure at all times during and after project implementation: Satisfaction of public Water demand; Water quality in compliance, present and future; Eastern Biscayne Aquifer withdrawal at or below current permitted amounts, with eventual curtailment; and residuals and concentrate disposal effected in an environmentally acceptable manner. These operating constraints, plus the unusual requirements for blending control make this project an important and instructive prototype for our changing Water Utility Industry.
