- Tenth International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques"
- Edited by Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
Modeling of flow patterns and microbiological parameters for hazard assessment of bathing waters affected by combined sewer overflows
- Giuseppe Locuratolo
- Elvira Armenio
- Enrico Barbone
- Cosimo Gaspare Giannuzzi
- Antonietta Porfido
- Nicola Ungaro
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.80
ARPA Puglia carried out a numerical study to simulate the evolution of the turbidity plume geometry and to describe the bacterial dispersion caused by the discharge of a mixture of raw sewage and surface runoff from the so called condotta Matteotti into the marine-coastal waterbody close to the urban beach (bathing area) called “Pane e Pomodoro”. The condotta Matteotti is an underground concrete pipe connected with a spillway to the main sewer system: it acts as an emergency weir to prevent flooding during or soon after intense rainfall events. During these rainfalls the seaward sluice gates open, and the untreated sewage is discharged into the sea thus decreasing the water quality. The simulation, according to a heavy rainfall and overflow event occurred in July 2018, was implemented using the DHI's Mike 3 suite enhanced with the ECOlab module, both organized as step-by-step processes. The validation of the final model was performed by comparing the microbiological concentration resulted from the model application with the on-field measurements and samples collected by ARPA Puglia during its ordinary water monitoring activities.
- Keywords:
- Overflow,
- Bathing waters,
- Water quality,
- Flow pattern,
- Bacterial dispersion,
ARPA Puglia, Italy
ARPA Puglia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3334-0509
ARPA Puglia, Italy
ARPA Puglia, Italy
ARPA Puglia, Italy
ARPA Puglia, Italy
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Modeling of flow patterns and microbiological parameters for hazard assessment of bathing waters affected by combined sewer overflows
Authors
Giuseppe Locuratolo, Elvira Armenio, Enrico Barbone, Cosimo Gaspare Giannuzzi, Antonietta Porfido, Nicola Ungaro
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.80
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Tenth International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques"
Book Subtitle
Livorno (Italy) 11th-13th June 2024
Editors
Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
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Metadata License
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6
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979-12-215-0556-6
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979-12-215-0557-3
Series Title
Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Series E-ISSN
2975-0288