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International Water Association (IWA)

Task Group on River Water Quality Modeling

 

Pete Shanahan is a member of the IWA Task Group on River Water Quality Modeling, which was formed to review the current practice and state of the art in river water-quality modeling and to develop alternative models based on its findings.  The models developed are compatible with the existing IWA Activated Sludge Models (ASM-1, ASM-2, and ASM-3) and can be straightforwardly linked to them.  The Task Group published their final report as an IWA Scientific and Technical Report:

 

IWA Publishing Scientific and Technical Report No. 12
River Water Quality Model No. 1

 

The following Task Group technical papers co-authored by Pete Shanahan are available for download:

 

Papers presented at Water Quality International 1998, Nineteenth Biennial Conference and Exhibition, International Association on Water Quality, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  June 24, 1998:

 

River Water Quality Modelling: I. State of The Art (51K)

River Water Quality Modelling: II. Problems of The Art (40K)

River Water Quality Modelling: III. Future of The Art (36K)

 

Papers presented at the 1st World Congress of the IWA, Paris 2000, Paris, France.  July 4, 2000:

 

River Water Quality Model No. 1: I. Modelling Approach (182K)

River Water Quality Model No. 1: II. Biochemical Process Equations (246K)

River Water Quality Model No. 1: III. Biochemical Submodel Selection (50K)

 

 

Temperature Modeling in Surface-water Bodies

 

The paper, Water Temperature Modeling: A Practical Guide, was presented at the EPA Stormwater and Water Quality Model Users Group Meeting on April 12-13, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan.  It provides useful advice on modeling temperature and developing the meteorological parameters needed to model temperature.

 

Water Temperature Modeling:  A Practical Guide (555K)

 

The program, EQUILO, is a BASIC computer language program for computing the equilibrium temperature of a water body.  An executable version for execution under MS DOS or in the DOS window in Windows is provided as is the source code developed for Microsoft QuickBASIC.

 

EQUILO DOS executable (41K)

EQUILO source code (8K)

 

 

 

International Institute for applied systems analysis (iiasa)

Research project on degraded river basins

 

From 1992 to 1996, Pete Shanahan contributed to the water Quality Management of Degraded River Basins in Central and Eastern Europe project at IIASA.  This project focused on those rivers in the CEE countries that have been excessively polluted by municipal and industrial wastes.  The project sought innovative strategies for improving water quality within the context of the social, political, and economic transition of Central and Eastern Europe.

 

The following papers contributed by Pete Shanahan are available for download.

 

The Changing Approach to Water-Quality Management in the United States (416K)

 

A Water-Quality History of the Blackstone River, Massachusetts, USA:  Implications for Central and Eastern European Rivers (78K)

 

The following World Bank book is available for purchase from amazon.com.

 

Municipal Wastewater Treatment in Central and Eastern Europe; Present Situation and Cost-Effective Development Strategies

 

 

Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP)

Improvements to WASP Model

 

User’s manuals, FORTRAN code, and executable codes are available below.

 

MDEP WASP executable and source:

 

MDEP Executable (~500K zip file)

MDEP Source Code (~100K zip file)

 

The WASP Wizard is an Excel macro for post-processing WASP output and creating Excel graphs.  It also works on output from WASP  versions other than the MDEP version.

 

Excel WASP Wizard:         

 

WASP Wizard (88K zip file)    

 

Model Documentation:

 

MDEPWASP User Manual A (Model Documentation (1,132K pdf file)

MDEPWASP User Manual B (Input Data) (148K pdf file)

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