The role of wetland water quality standards in nonpoint source pollution control strategies

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen M. Robb
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Nonpoint Source Pollution ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Nonpoint Source ◽  
Water Quality Standards ◽  
Wetland Water ◽  
Wetland Water Quality

scholarly journals Decision support system for optimization of permits for wastewater discharge

RBRH ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquin Ignacio Bonnecarrère Garcia ◽  
Andre Schardong ◽  
Rubem La Laina Porto
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Wastewater Discharge ◽  
Water Quality Standards ◽  
Water Abstraction ◽  
Water Users

ABSTRACT This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) to assist in the issuing of wastewater discharge and water abstraction rights, including the evaluation of alternative pollution control strategies used to facilitate the analysis and implementation of the instrument. The DSS substantiates its analysis with the use of evolutionary algorithms for the optimization of water demand and wastewater discharge allocation. It intends to maximize the uses and minimize the costs of wastewater treatment measures, according to the limits imposed by the water quality standards. Among the strategies considered for the issuing of permits were the compliance with environmental legislation for wastewater discharge, the equality between water users, the water quality standards set by the water bodies’ classification, and the restrictions imposed by the responsible controlling water agency. The DSS’s results were satisfactory to the strategies analyzed, as they complied with the restrictions and penalties imposed to the objective function. The main objective of the proposed strategies is to evaluate the performance of the DSS in getting the results, as well as to analyze the flexibility of the algorithms when new restrictions and penalties are introduced in the decision making process.

scholarly journals A Framework for Measuring the Economic Impact of Alternative Pollution Control Policies: An Application to the Egg Producing Industry

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
P. Geoffrey Allen
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Point Source ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Water Quality Standards ◽  
Programming Framework ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Farm

Present Federal legislation imposes stringent water quality standards on point source emissions from agricultural operations. In the future, individual states may propose policies which are even more restrictive. A number of studies have examined the normative responses to antipollution regulations at the individual farm level (e.g. Ashraf and Christensen for the Massachusetts dairy industry; Gaede for the Massachusetts egg industry). These studies assumed that individual benchmark farms would achieve compliance with pollution standards by adopting the least cost alternative disposal method. They permitted as activities in a linear programming framework only those waste disposal practices considered capable of meeting regulations.

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