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Coastal areas are excellent venues for tourism and recreational activities promoting health and therapeutic benefits for its users. Thus, needless to say, it is very important to ensure good water quality in these bathing areas to protect people`s health. Various guidelines regarding beach water quality exist throughout the world. However, proper monitoring systems for efficient collection and analysis of water quality and up-to-date dissemination of information are yet to be widely implemented. In this study, bathing water quality modeling and analysis is performed through the conjunctive use of several powerful modeling softwares. MOUSE, a physically-based model, was used to represent a one-dimensional pipe network model simulating the hydrodynamic and water quality behavior of the urban drainage system of Gentofte, Denmark. MIKE 3 FM was also applied to simulate coastal hydraulics and bacterial advection.dispersion considering biological decay. For the simulated rain events, checking exceedance (where concentration is greater than 500 counts per 100 ml) in defined bathing points identified a maximum total duration of 58 hours in Bellevue beach. However, checking for the entire coastal area revealed a maximum exceedance duration of 212.5 hours. This indicates the importance of comprehensive determination of bathing water quality in the area. |
