Pollution Loading Module
Center for Research in Water Resources , The University of Texas at Austin
Introduction
Pollutant loads are obtained by multiplying flows found with GH-Flow by Expected Mean Concentration estimates.
GH-Loads is a series of Avenue scripts prepared by Ferdinand Hellweger and Ann Quenzer to describe the movement of pollutant loads over the landscape and their connection with segments of a receiving water body.
The exercise begins by connecting the river network with the bay system. A runoff grid is calculated by inserting a precipitation grid into a series of runoff equations calculated in Seann Reed's research entitled Spatial Water Balance of Texas. The land uses are associated with a Expected Mean Concentration (EMC) value in the runoff. A EMC grid is calculated and multiplied with the runoff grid to produce a land surface loading grid. A weighted flow accumulation is calculated using the loadings grid as the weight grid to determine the nonpoint source loadings to the river network and bay system.
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Agrichemical Transport in Midwest Rivers
This section of the material documents the PhD dissertation of Pawel Mizgalewicz which is reproduced on GISHydro97 as CRWR Online Report 96-6. This research is aimed at generalizing the results of small watershed scale water quality research to the river basin scale by providing a map-based simulation model for monthly flows, concentrations and loads. The application region for this methodology is the Iowa-Cedar Basin in the Midwestern United States.
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Primary Contact
Ann Quenzer
Center for Research in Water Resources
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, 78712
E-mail: quenzer@mail.utexas.edu
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