Water Quality: Prevention, Identification, and Management of Diffuse Pollution [Hardcover]

Vladimir Novotny (Author), Harvey Olem (Author)

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Publication Date: December 30, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0471284130 | ISBN-13: 978-0471284130

Subsurface migration, fertilizer runoff from farms, storm water from streets, and other forms of diffuse pollution are now recognized as having serious environmental consequences. In more than 50 percent of estimated cases in which water quality goals are not achieved, diffuse pollution is cited as the main cause. This guide surveys the myriad problems and challenges presented by this form of pollution, and offers a wide range of feasible, cost-effective solutions for dealing with them. Water Quality: Prevention, Identification, and Management of Diffuse Pollution covers aspects of diffuse pollution ranging from sources and sites to health and legal consequences. It provides readers with valuable discussions of

• Sources of diffuse pollution
• Legal definitions
• The hydrologic nature of diffuse loads, and the processes and land uses contributing to these loads
• Best management practices that emphasize removal of priority pollutants
• Use of wetlands
• The fate of pollutants in receiving waters
• The restoration of reservoirs, streams, lakes, and watersheds that have been damaged

Extensive data are provided on nontoxic as well as toxic pollutants, including new toxic compounds. The authors provide an integrated approach to water quality control and explain advanced pollution abatement technologies, such as the use of wetlands. Sections on repercussions to the economy include discussions of cost/benefit analyses of abatement programs and the payments that support the programs. Throughout, real-world examples illustrate practical applications of various control, abatement, and remediation strategies. Readers discover how to use modeling techniques to pinpoint the effects of diffuse pollution, as well as how to plan environmental protection and recovery. Other areas investigated are erosion, soil pollution, industrial diffuse pollution management, and the use of aquacultures in wetland management. The book offers solutions to a serious pollution problem—making it required reading for environmental and agricultural engineers, planners, regulatory professionals, and remediation specialists. It will also be a useful source for graduate students in environmental engineering and science.

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From the Back Cover

Sound, practical advice on managing and controlling diffuse source water pollution and watershed management

This new edition of Water Quality provides the latest tools to prevent and abate diffuse pollution, as well as innovative problem-solving approaches for water and soil resources damaged by diffuse pollution. The information and techniques presented here emphasize sustainability, protection, and restoration of resources, while also considering land-use ethics and socioeconomic aspects of abatement and preservation.

This Second Edition's substantially updated material covers significant advances made in understanding and controlling diffuse pollution, such as key information on atmospheric deposition, pollutant interaction with soils, models for estimating loading of diffuse pollution from land, predicting safe water and soil acceptance of residual pollution, and use of GIS technology. State-of-the-art technical and socioeconomic tools are presented for controlling and abating diffuse pollution in such areas as urban, highway, agricultural, and industrial environments, as well as for managing and restoring streams, lakes, and watersheds. Providing both national and international outlooks, new chapters are included describing the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process, and material in other chapters is extensively updated to reflect the latest regulatory guidelines and new information on major legal decisions.

Water Quality, Second Edition is a valuable reference for environmental engineers, scientists, civil engineers, students of these disciplines, and government and regulatory personnel. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

VLADIMIR NOVOTNY is professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering; chairman of the Environmental and Water Resources Committee at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and president of AquaNova International, Ltd., an environmental consulting firm. Dr. Novotny has chaired and organized several important conferences in the field of pollution control. He is also a chairman of the international specialists’ group within the International Association on Water Quality that deals with diffuse pollution. He has written or co-written numerous books and papers, including Handbook of Nonpoint Pollution: Sources and Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. HARVEY OLEM is director of the Center for Watershed Protection and president of Olem Associates. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Environmental Pollution Control from Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Liming Acidic Surface Waters and numerous articles and reports.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1072 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471284130
• ISBN-13: 978-0471284130
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,042,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars quite ok, September 30, 2009

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This review is from: Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

there are a lot of typo and unit errors (this can be misleading to students). i got no choice , to buy this book as my text book. this book is good but not so many examples of problems to further understand it. explanation is also not well elaborated on some topics. (students need more explanation to understand). no exercise included to try. the contents are good though. This book is too expensive for a lot of errors and no examples/exercise. a moderate rating!

1.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors, December 5, 2011

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Stephanie A. Lynn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Water Quality: Diffuse Pollution and Watershed Management, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

This book was littered with too many errors! A few errors here and there are sometimes going to happen, but this book is unacceptable for the intended audience (engineers, hydrologists, etc.)! The grammatical errors did not bother me as much as the technical errors. A number of equations were wrong, as were a bunch of the values in the example problems. It was very difficult to learn or understand the material when I had no idea where certain numbers came from. Was it a typo or was the value the correct value? With the number of errors I found, and I am not a non-point pollution expert, how do I have faith that what the rest of the author tells me is accurate?

For a profession in which accuracy is very important, this book fails and the author/editors should be embarrassed. I will not be using this as a reference.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Dealing With NPS Pollution, March 26, 2007

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mbgoss (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Water Quality: Prevention, Identification, and Management of Diffuse Pollution (Hardcover)

This is a great book for dealing with Non-Point Source (NPS) pollution. It covers a fairly comprehensive list of topics, while not going into great depth on most. It gives you enough information to get a good start on just about ANY analysis related to NPS pollution and a solid beginning to expand your research from if more in-depth analysis is required. In my opinion, this is a great reference for anyone working in water quality, and a "must-have" for working with NPS.