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DOI 10.1007/s10661-007-9645-y
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Title (Primary) Monitoring, assessment and modelling using water quality data in the Saale River Basin, Germany
Author Bongartz, K.; Steele, T.D.; Baborowski, M.; Lindenschmidt, K.E.
Source Titel Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Year 2007
Department FLOEK
Volume 135
Issue 1-3
Page From 227
Page To 240
Language englisch
Keywords Chloride; Nitrate; Zinc; River water quality; River basin management; Saale River
Abstract The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the overall driver for this environmental study and currently requires the identification of patterns and sources of pollution (monitoring) to support objective ecological sound decision making and specific measures to enhance river water quality (modelling). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate in a case study the interrelationship between (1) hydrologic and water quality monitoring data for river basin characterization and (2) modelling applications to assess resources management alternatives. The study deals with monitoring assessment and modelling of river water quality data of the main stem Saale River and its principal tributaries. For a period of 6 years the data, which was sampled by Environmental Agencies of the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, was investigated to assess sources and indicators of pollution. In addition to the assessment a modelling exercise of the routing of different pollutants was carried out in the lower part of the test basin. The modelling is a tool to facilitate the evaluation of alternative measures to reduce contaminant loadings and improve ecological status of a water body as required by WFD. The transport of suspended solids, salts and heavy metals was modelled along a selected Saale reach under strong anthropogenic influence in terms of contaminants and river morphology between the city of Halle and the confluence with the Elbe River. The simulations were carried out with the model WASP5 which is a dynamic flood-routing and water quality model package developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Bongartz, K., Steele, T.D., Baborowski, M., Lindenschmidt, K.E. (2007):
Monitoring, assessment and modelling using water quality data in the Saale River Basin, Germany
Environ. Monit. Assess. 135 (1-3), 227 - 240 10.1007/s10661-007-9645-y