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Integrating hydraulic modelling and GIS for wastewater systems management: a case study

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Summary:The increasing costs related to operation and maintenance of urban wastewater systems has led to a special attention of utilities in promoting studies to address the key problem of water infiltration, inflow and improper connections entering the separate drainage networks. This is a common and hard to predict operational situation that needs to be identified and minimized as it negatively affects the managerial conditions of the network and the downstream wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) efficiency. Management difficulties in separate drainage networks seldom occur when unexpected groundwater inflow, stormwater infiltration, and flows from improper connections enter into the dedicated sanitary sewer systems. Although the consequences that improper flows may have on wastewater systems are known, the problem is difficult to locate and quantify. The use of modelling tools is of special relevance to the planning, management and rehabilitation of these types of systems, which can be very useful for: (i) evaluating the capacity of existing systems in real time; (ii) testing alternative solutions to solve problems detected; or testing different procedures to operate the systems in extreme events scenarios. The implementation of mathematical models for determining the hydrodynamics behaviour of dry-weather and wet-weather flows in sewers was applied in a small urban wastewater network of the city of Braga in Portugal (Figure 1). The free user program US EPA SWMM was applied with the integration of GIS InterAqua information related to the wastewater collection system.
Main Authors:Vieira, Bárbara Filipa Vasquez
Other Authors:Bárbara, A. M. V. S.; Barbot, E.; Vieira, J.M.P.; Pinho, José L. S.
Subject:Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Civil
Year:2017
Country:Portugal
Document type:conference poster
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade do Minho
Language:English
Origin:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

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