title: Marine-based waste stabilisation ponds: an evaluation of the hydraulic viability.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burrows
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Tickell
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Hedges
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Mara
mesh_terms: D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D012623:Seawater / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D012722:Sewage / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014872:Water Movements; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D018508:Water Purification / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D012722:Sewage