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Top Ten Reasons for Water Quality Modeling
The
following top ten list was presented at the International Conference on
Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling held in Toronto on February 20, 2009.
10. Prove to your
regulatory agency that CSO is essentially just storm water.
9. Because nobody is willing to fund water quantity modeling.
8. Whatever it takes to get that word "pollutograph" into my
vocabulary!
7. To dispel the myth of “bacteria in society”- your gut flora
speaking.
6. There is not enough uncertainty in my hydraulic model, so I will
add water quality.
5. I
needed highly inaccurate modeling results to lend credibility to my inaccurate
sampling results.
4. Because you believe the fundamental units of sewage flow are
f.p.s. (feces per second).
3. Fridays
at 4 is the best time to collect water samples.
2. My wife believes quality is more important than quantity.
1. Water Quality "Stimulation" Models - the best way to get
President Obamas's infrastructure stimulus money in the USA.
More reasons:
1.
It’s the Clean Water Act baby!
2.
You won't have to worry about whether they match your spreadsheet
results.
3.
Nothing left to lose - I did so poorly with the water quantity
modeling.
4.
You don't know quality until you crunch it.
5.
Because you can't afford to go to Fantasy Land in person.
6.
Because you want to live a conspiracy theory.
7.
I
like Water Quality Modeling because I like precision….and logarithmic plots.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following contributors:
• Barry Adams
• Philip Brink
• Jay Dorsey
• Michael
Gregory
• Khalid Khan
• Greg McGrath
• Karen
Ridgway
• Bill Walker
• Noah Walker
Disclaimer
These
reasons are based on the responses provided by the members of the SWMM-USERS
discussion group. This list has no technical or educational
value; it's intended for entertainment only; and it is not intended to be
offensive to anyone.
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This page was last updated on February 25, 2009.