Marine-based waste stabilisation ponds: an evaluation of the hydraulic viability.
Marine-Based Waste Stabilisation Ponds, formed by floating boom/skirt curtain enclosures anchored in sheltered waters, have recently been proposed for provision of low-cost effluent treatment facilities where land availability is limited in rapidly expanding coastal cities in the Third World. This paper outlines findings from a viability assessment, which drew on a preliminary site evaluation and baseline environmental survey (for a site in sheltered waters in the Far East), laboratory studies involving scale model tests in wave/wind/current flumes, and a structural and design loading study. It focuses on hydraulic and hydrodynamic considerations and reports the study's conclusions.
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK.
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Tickell
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Hedges
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Pearson
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D007220:Industrial Waste; D012722:Sewage