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News Release from: WRc | Subject: Integrated Modelling of Urban Watercourses
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 December 2004
Integrated Modelling of Urban
Watercourses
This paper describes the outcome of an Urban Pollution Management (UPM) study of the West Belfast sewer catchment, and has won the ICE Telford Prize for the authors
The Institution of Civil Engineers has awarded one of this year's Telford Prizes to a paper published in Water and Maritime Engineering (the 156th Issue of WM3, dated September) 2003 The paper, titled 'Integrated Modelling of Urban Watercourses' is authored by Bob Crabtree and Paul Dempsey of WRc; Ian Clifforde and Steve Quinn of Black and Veatch; and the study funders Brian Henderson from DRD Water Service; and, Alvin Wilson from DoE Environment and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The paper describes the outcome of an Urban Pollution Management (UPM) study of the West Belfast sewer catchment that involved integrated modelling of the West Belfast sewer system to assess the impact of current and proposed future improved CSO discharges to the urban rivers and the tidal Lagan Estuary in the centre of Belfast.
The outcome of the study confirmed that the proposed sewerage upgrading scheme will allow river and estuary water quality objectives to be achieved provided that reductions are made to other sources of pollution.
At the award ceremony, held at the ICE in London last month, the citation stated that "The integrated modelling of the West Belfast sewer systems using UPM techniques represents a significant advance in assessing the impact of CSO discharges to a variety of surface water environments that impinge upon one another and where different environmental standards apply.
The West Belfast study sets new horizons in the integrated use of both simplified wastewater system and receiving water modeling techniques to test solutions for improving the performance of complex sewer systems, taking into account hydraulic efficiency, water quality impact and cost effectiveness".
In addition to the technical advances made in the study, the authors believe that the award of the Telford prize was in recognition of the strong partnership approach adopted by Water Service and Environment and Heritage Service and their respective consultants, Black and Veatch and WRc in successfully completing the study to a demanding schedule.
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