title: Selection of monitoring locations for storm water quality assessment.
abstract: Storm water runoff is a major contributor to the pollution of receiving waters. Storm water characteristics may vary significantly between locations and events. Hence, for each given location, this necessitates a well-designed monitoring campaign prior to selection of an appropriate storm water management strategy. The challenge for the design of a monitoring campaign with a given budget is to balance detailed monitoring at a limited number of locations versus less detailed monitoring at a large number of locations. This paper proposes a methodology for the selection of monitoring locations for storm water quality monitoring, based on (pre-)screening, a quick scan monitoring campaign, and final selection of locations and design of the monitoring setup. The main advantage of the method is the ability to prevent the selection of monitoring locations that turn out to be inappropriate. In addition, in this study, the quick scan resulted in a first useful dataset on storm water quality and a strong indication of illicit connections at one of the monitoring locations.
authors: Sanitary engineering, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: j.g.langeveld@tudelft.nl; Royal HaskoningDHV, P.O. Box 151, 6500 AD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors: J G
authors: JG
authors: Langeveld
authors: TAUW, P.O. Box 20748, 1001 NS Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Boogaard
authors: Royal HaskoningDHV, P.O. Box 151, 6500 AD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors: H J
authors: HJ
authors: Liefting
authors: Royal HaskoningDHV, P.O. Box 151, 6500 AD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors: R P S
authors: RP
authors: Schilperoort
authors: Municipality of Almere, P.O. Box 200, 1300 AE Almere, The Netherlands.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Hof
authors: Regional Water Authority Zuiderzeeland, P.O. Box 229, 8200 AE Lelystad, The Netherlands.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Nijhof
authors: Regional Water Authority Zuiderzeeland, P.O. Box 229, 8200 AE Lelystad, The Netherlands.
authors: A C
authors: AC
authors: de Ridder
authors: Regional Water Authority Zuiderzeeland, P.O. Box 229, 8200 AE Lelystad, The Netherlands.
authors: M W
authors: MW
authors: Kuiper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D009426:Netherlands; D013997:Time Factors; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*; D060753:Water Quality / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D014867:Water