A Steady state water quality model for river systems

Abstract

This work was carried out by me as the final project for the Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Moratuwa. The project concerns mainly in the building up of a Predictive Water Quality Model for a river system for forecasting how a river system would react to a set of given waste effluent dis­ charges along the stretch of the river under consideration. Throughout my work I was aware of the limitations in the actual application of this model to the local river systems mostly due to the inadequacy in the present sampling programmes in respect of the local rivers for obtaining data. However, by carrylng out this exercise, I felt that an awareness of this problem would be created which would be of some help in improving the situation at least to a certain extent. The work concerns more with the development of the model rather than the application of it to any given river system. I shall gladly welcome any comments on shortcomings of this work so that the model could be improved further.