Modeling sewage leakage to surrounding groundwater and stormwater drains

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2659-2665

  Ly, Duy Khiem ^a   Chui, Ting Fong May ^b  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Sewage leakage; Sewer defect; Urban drainage; Urban groundwater; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGIC INTERACTIONS; LEAKAGE MONITORING; LOCAL FIELDS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; PIPE REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF WATER; RAINFALL EVENT; SEWAGE PIPES; SINGAPORE; STORMWATERS; SYSTEM RESPONSE; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN GROUNDWATER;

CRACKS; GROUNDWATER; RAIN; STORMS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

SEWAGE;

GROUND WATER; RAIN; STORM WATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAKAGE; PIPE LAYING; SEWAGE; STORMWATER; URBAN DRAINAGE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE LEAKAGE; SIMULATION; SINGAPORE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; DRAINAGE, SANITARY; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHORUS; RHEOLOGY; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84872710110     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2012.496     Document Type: Article

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