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[...]... Sullivan Nelson L Nemerow xiii CONTRIBUTORS T DAVID CHINN Senior Vice President, HDR Engineering, Austin, Texas, Tim.Chinn@hdrinc.com JOHN R KIEFER Consulting Environmental Engineer, Greenbrae, California, john.kiefer@sbcglobal.net xv CHAPTER 1 WATER SUPPLY T DAVID CHINN Professional Engineer, Senior Vice President, HDR Engineering, Austin, Texas INTRODUCTION A primary requisite for good health is an... Publication, EPA/625/4-85/016, Center for Environmental Research Information, Cincinnati, OH, September 1985, p 11 b R C Heath, Basic Ground-Water Hydrology, U.S Geological Survey Paper 2220, U.S Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983 c H Ries and T L Watson, Engineering Geology, Wiley, New York, 1931 d R K Linsley and J B Franzini, Water Resources Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964 e... access to piped water supply and 22 percent had access to acceptable types of sewage disposal.10 The diseases associated with the consumption of contaminated water are discussed in Chapter 1 of Environmental Engineering, Sixth Edition: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil,- and Air-Borne Disease and Illness and summarized in Table 1.4 of that volume Groundwater Pollution Hazard Table 1.1 shows... biphenyl (PBB), mirex, Kepone vinyl chloride, trichloroethylene, benzene, and others Communicable and noninfectious diseases that may be spread by water are discussed in Table 1.4 in Chapter 1 of Environmental Engineering, Sixth Edition: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil,- and Air-Borne Disease and Illness WATER QUANTITY AND QUALITY Water Cycle and Geology The movement of water can be best... Such a term includes (1) any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control of the operator of such system and used primarily in connection with such system, and Environmental Engineering: Water, Wastewater, Soil and Groundwater Treatment and Remediation Sixth Edition Edited by Nelson L Nemerow, Franklin J Agardy, Patrick Sullivan, and Joseph A Salvato Copyright © 2009... to the land and groundwaters d Causes of groundwater pollution that are not discharges Source: The Report to Congress, Waste Disposal Practices and Their Effects on Ground Water, Executive Summary, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, January 1977, p 39 TRAVEL OF POLLUTION THROUGH THE GROUND 5 sources for drinking water,∗ these resources must be protected from physical, chemical, radiological,... permeability (hydraulic conductivity) s = hydraulic gradient FIGURE 1.3 Magnitude of coefficient of permeability for different classes of soils (Source: G M Fair, J C Geyer, and D A Okun, Water and Wastewater Engineering, Wiley, New York, 1966, pp 9–13.) 16 WATER SUPPLY Also, Q = va where Q = discharge a = cross-sectional area of aquifer Example: (1) Estimate the velocity of flow (ft/day) and the discharge (gpd)... water) Taste Taste Aesthetic Level 6.5–8.5 0.05–0.2 mg/l 250 mg/1 1 mg/1 0.5 mg/1 250 mg/1 500 mg/1 0.1 mg/l 5 mg/1 2 mg/1 15 color units Noncorrosive 0.3 mg/1 0.05 mg/1 3 threshold odor number Source: U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Fact Sheet, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, March 2008 used directly Guideline values in the tables must be used and interpreted in conjunction .