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Morphodynamic changes in a natural river confluence due to a hydropower modified flow regime

Anton Schleiss, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro, Simon Wampfler

River channel confluences form important morphological components of any river system. This article presents the results of an investigation on a natural river confluence in Switzerland. The aim of the field work performed at the confluence of the Sarine ( ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Marc Schleiss

The ability to predict the runoff response of an urban catchment to rainfall is crucial for managing drainage systems effectively and controlling discharges from urban areas. In this paper we assess the potential of commercial microwave links (MWL) to capt ...

IWA Publishing2013

Experiments and numerical modeling of baffle configuration effects on the performance of sedimentation tanks

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar, Amir Mehdi Razmi

The hydraulic efficiency of sedimentation basins is reduced by short-circuiting, circulation zones and bottom particle-laden jets. Baffles are used to improve sediment tank performance. In this study, laboratory experiments were used to examine the hydrody ...

National Research Council Canada2013

The herbicide glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA in the Lavaux vineyard area, western Switzerland: proof of widespread export to surface waters. Part I: Method validation in different water matrices

Dominique Grandjean, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

An analytical method for the quantification of the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, its main by-product, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) and the herbicide glufosinate at trace level was developed and tested in different aqueous matrices. Their derivati ...

2013

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Jonas Margot, Anoys Magnet

Many organic micropollutants present in wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides, are poorly removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). To reduce the release of these substances into the aquatic environment, advanced wastewater ...

Elsevier2013

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Jonas Margot, Anoys Magnet

Many organic micropollutants present in wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides, are poorly removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). To reduce the release of these substances into the aquatic environment, advanced wastewater ...

2013

Optimizing turbine withdrawal from a tropical reservoir for improved water quality in downstream wetlands

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bernhard Wehrli

Large reservoirs in the tropics act as efficient nutrient traps and often develop hypoxic conditions in the hypolimnion. Both effects may have severe implications for aquatic ecosystems, such as limited primary production in downstream riparian agriculture ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Sources, Spreading and Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Resistant Bacteria in Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Nadine Czekalski

Increasing numbers of multiresistant bacterial pathogens cause severe health problems on a global scale. Large quantities of bacteria and their resistance genes are discharged into natural environments via human and animal waste. Not much is known so far a ...

EPFL2013

Enhancement of micropollutant degradation at the outlet of small wastewater treatment plants

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Alessandro Brovelli, Jonas Margot, Pierre Claude Jean Queloz

The aim of this work was to evaluate low-cost and easy-to-operate engineering solutions that can be added as a polishing step to small wastewater treatment plants to reduce the micropollutant load to water bodies. The proposed design combines a sand filter ...

Public Library of Science2013

Micropollutant dynamics in Vidy Bay - A coupled hydrodynamic-photolysis model to assess the spatial extent of ecotoxicological risk

David Andrew Barry, Tamar Kohn, Florence Bonvin, Amir Mehdi Razmi

The direct discharge of effluent wastewater into Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva) results in the formation of an effluent plume with locally high concentrations of wastewater-derived micropollutants. The micropollutant hotspots above the wastewater outfall present a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Water-sensitive urban design

Morphodynamic changes in a natural river confluence due to a hydropower modified flow regime

Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Experiments and numerical modeling of baffle configuration effects on the performance of sedimentation tanks

The herbicide glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA in the Lavaux vineyard area, western Switzerland: proof of widespread export to surface waters. Part I: Method validation in different water matrices

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

Optimizing turbine withdrawal from a tropical reservoir for improved water quality in downstream wetlands

Sources, Spreading and Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Resistant Bacteria in Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Enhancement of micropollutant degradation at the outlet of small wastewater treatment plants

Micropollutant dynamics in Vidy Bay - A coupled hydrodynamic-photolysis model to assess the spatial extent of ecotoxicological risk

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Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Optimizing turbine withdrawal from a tropical reservoir for improved water quality in downstream wetlands

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

The herbicide glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA in the Lavaux vineyard area, western Switzerland: proof of widespread export to surface waters. Part I: Method validation in different water matrices

Enhancement of micropollutant degradation at the outlet of small wastewater treatment plants

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: Ozone or powdered activated carbon?

Sources, Spreading and Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Resistant Bacteria in Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Micropollutant dynamics in Vidy Bay - A coupled hydrodynamic-photolysis model to assess the spatial extent of ecotoxicological risk

Morphodynamic changes in a natural river confluence due to a hydropower modified flow regime

Experiments and numerical modeling of baffle configuration effects on the performance of sedimentation tanks