Determination of Time-Of-Travel, Dispersion Characteristics, and Oxygen Reaeration Coefficients During Low Streamflows: Lower Tacony/Frankford Creek, (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288862764)

Time-of-travel, dispersion characteristics, and oxygen reaeration coefficients were determined by use of dye and gas tracing for a 2-mile reach of Tacony/Frankford Creek in Philadelphia, southeastern Pennsylvania. The reach frequently has concentrations of dissolved oxygen (DO) below the water-quality standard of 4 milligrams per liter during warm months. Several large combined sewer overflows (CSOs), including one of the largest in Philadelphia (former Wingohocking Creek), discharge to the study reach in this urbanized watershed, affecting water quality and the timing and magnitude of storm peaks. In addition, a dam that commonly results in backwater conditions and reduced natural reaeration is present a few hundred feet from the end of the study reach. Time-of-travel and reaeration data were collected under base-flow conditions in August and September 2009 for three sub-reaches from Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. Route 1) to Castor Avenue.

Author: Lisa A. Senior,Matthew C. Gyves
ISBN-10: 1288862768
ISBN-13: 9781288862764
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.22d