Improvement in Moses Lake Quality from Dilution and Sewage Diversion

Autor:	Eugene B. Welch, Evan R. Weiher
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Hydrology Chlorophyll a business.industry Phosphorus Sewage chemistry.chemical_element Aquatic Science Dilution chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Nitrate medicine Environmental science Flushing Water quality medicine.symptom business Effluent Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Lake and Reservoir Management. 20:76-84
ISSN:	2151-5530 1040-2381
Popis:	Moses Lake has received dilution water in 9 of 10 years since treatment began in 1977. The average input for those years was 143 ± 79 × 106m3/yr over 93 days, which represents flushing rates of about 13 percent/day for Parker Horn where the dilution water enters, and 1 percent/day for the whole lake. As a result, lake quality has improved at least 50 percent in terms of chlorophyll aand total phosphorus and by nearly 100 percent in transparency. Pumping diluted lake water from Parker Horn beginning in 1982 and diverting sewage effluent in 1984 markedly improved water quality in a section that received treated effluent and little or no dilution water. Total phosphorus has declined by 90 percent and chlorophyll aby 60 percent, although transparency increased only about 0.2 m because of that section's shallowness. Diluted nitrate concentration in the inflow has been considered the cause for control of algae, but a switch from largely flood to spray irrigation, as well as sewage diversion, has result...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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