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Water Distribution System Monitoring: A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality
by Abigail F. Cantor, P.E.

Despite the publication of the Lead and Copper Rule about 18 years ago, compliance is still a major challenge. Because of this and other water quality issues that affect water distribution systems, there is a need for an alternative protocol for obtaining representative water samples and a need for approaching water quality information in a methodical manner. This book explores such procedures and a monitoring device - already in use at several municipal water utilities - that provide higher quality water chemistry and microbiology data than by using other available methods. It outlines these procedures and provides equipment lists and assembly instructions for the monitoring device as an open-source technology.

Visit the author's website to keep up with on-going discussions of the book's topics at www.processresearch.net.

Features:

• Presents the basic concepts of water chemistry and microbiology in a straightforward manner
• Provides step-by-step instructions for developing a monitoring strategy unique to each water system
• Presents a special monitoring technique for studying the water chemistry and microbiology of a distribution system
• Provides equipment lists and assembly instructions for a standardized monitoring device as an open-source technology
• Examines costs and economics of using this approach to demonstrate its economical utility
• Promotes techniques for water quality control and water system improvement

Audience:

• Water utility managers and operators
• Water analysis laboratory and material science/geology laboratory scientists
• Water and water distribution system internal corrosion researchers
• Drinking water regulators
• Engineering consultants
• Engineering professors and their students
• Anyone who wants to understand water quality issues, especially when related to the Lead and Copper Rule and to microbiological re-growth issues

Forward:

If you work at a drinking water utility, this book is written for you. It is a practical step-by-step approach to the complex topic of drinking water quality.

It will show you how to be proactive on water quality issues through routine monitoring of the distribution system and will help you prevent the devastating and costly effects of:

• Falling out of compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule
• Developing pinhole leaks in water service lines and private plumbing
• Leaving the water distribution system vulnerable to microorganisms
• Experiencing unwanted side-effects from treatment chemicals
• Adding the wrong water treatment chemical or using the wrong dosage

This book will put you on a path to well-defined and measurable control of water quality.

While proactive monitoring costs money, having water quality problems is even more costly! This book describes how proactive monitoring is both beneficial and economical.

 Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Concepts
• Chapter 2: Strategic Planning
• Chapter 3: Initial and Routine Monitoring
• Chapter 4: Case Studies
• Chapter 5: Economics
• Afterword
• Appendix A: Strategic Planning Worksheets
• Appendix B: Water Quality Parameters
• Appendix C: Metal Plate Film Analysis
• Appendix D: Process Research Solutions Monitoring Station
• Appendix E: Data Management and Analysis

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