An overview of evaluations to support contaminant load management for the North Saskatchewan River
To support the management of water quality in the North Saskatchewan River (NSR, a number of monitoring and evaluation initiatives have advanced in recent years. Work has been undertaken to:
- Enhance information available for the NSR to enable better evaluation of river conditions;
- Assemble available data on wastewater discharge and other pollutant sources
- Set appropriate water quality benchmarks that integrate the influence of variable flows
- Evaluate instream pollutant loads and options for their management
- Enable evaluation of river conditions relative to water quality objectives
This presentation summarizes key aspects of this work, focusing on models and related tools developed for the NSR system in various domains, ranging from individual treatment facility to watershed scales.
- Enhance information available for the NSR to enable better evaluation of river conditions;
- Assemble available data on wastewater discharge and other pollutant sources
- Set appropriate water quality benchmarks that integrate the influence of variable flows
- Evaluate instream pollutant loads and options for their management
- Enable evaluation of river conditions relative to water quality objectives
This presentation summarizes key aspects of this work, focusing on models and related tools developed for the NSR system in various domains, ranging from individual treatment facility to watershed scales.
