Economic and environmental modelling for pollution control in an estuary

Hanley, Nick; Faichney, Robin; Munro, Alistair; Shortle, James S.

doi:10.1006/jema.1997.0175

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“…Good agreement for DO in the lower Ouse could be achieved as long as the simulated bed sediment was sufficient to provide a realistic level of SS throughout the run-time. This implied the significant impact of SS on the DO concentration, as in other research [10,11].…”

Section: Structure Of Quests1d Modelsupporting

confidence: 71%

Evaluating alternative river management options in the tidal Ouse, UK

Wang¹

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 95

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The River Ouse forms a significant part of the Humber river system, providing the largest UK fresh water source to the North Sea and a valuable habitat for fish. It suffers from dissolved oxygen sag over summer months, especially downstream of industrial effluent discharges at Selby. The Environment Agency (EA) therefore proposed implementing stricter environmental limits for industries and sewage treatment works. The effectiveness of other management options is evaluated through a one-dimensional water quality model, QUESTS1D. Significant improvements in water quality from alternative options are predicted by simulation using QEUSTS1D, in comparison to tightening effluent consents. The Transfer Coefficients Matrix of BOD 5 is derived in this paper to indicate the relative impacts on water quality of using different discharge locations. An integrated river policy taking into account both effluent discharges and water abstraction on the basis of their effects suggests a combined water management framework could be applied to ensure the required water quality.

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Section: Structure Of Quests1d Modelsupporting

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Evaluating alternative river management options in the tidal Ouse, UK

Wang¹

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 95

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“…New draft guidance on the standards expected of organic chemicals processes have been issued by the EA but have already been widely criticised as offering little advance on the original guidance (ENDS, 1998e). A recent environmental-economic modelling exercise in the Forth Estuary, has attempted to address the issue of cost-benefit (Hanley et al, 1998). They looked at cost-effective ways of reducing Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) loadings and found that a TPP scheme could control inputs more cheaply than the current regulatory regime.…”

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Environmental regulation: Industry and the marine environment

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Cullinane

2000

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…(b) The Forth Estuary in Scotland (Hanley and Moffatt 1993;Hanley et al 1998) The Forth Estuary located in central Scotland is a multi-use resource, providing water supply for industrial use, recreation, habitat and effluent disposal from industrial and sewage works. The most significant problem was seasonal DO sag as in the Ouse, associated with low flow and high temperature conditions.…”

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“…An exceptional case in reality could be found in Hanley et al (1998), in which the abatement of pollution in a particularly large firm has decreasing marginal cost, i.e. 0 ) ( …”

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Cost Effectiveness in River Management: Evaluation of Integrated River Policy System in Tidal Ouse

Wang

2006

SSRN Journal

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The River Ouse forms a significant part of Humber river system, which drains about one fifth land area of the England and provides the largest fresh water source to the North Sea from UK. The river quality in the tidal river suffered from sag of dissolved oxygen (DO) during last few decades, deteriorated by the effluent discharges. The Environment Agency (EA) proposed to increase the water quality of Ouse by implementing more potent environmental policies. This paper explores the cost effectiveness of water management in the Tidal Ouse through various options by taking into account the variation of assimilative capacity of river water, both in static and dynamic scope of time. Reduction in both effluent discharges and water abstraction were considered along side with choice of effluent discharge location. Different instruments of environmental policy, the emission tax-subsidy (ETS) scheme and tradable pollution permits (TPP) systems were compared with the direct quantitative control approach. This paper at the last illustrated an empirical example to reach a particular water quality target in the tidal Ouse at the least cost, through a solution of constrained optimisation problem. The results suggested significant improvement in the water quality with less cost than current that will fail the target in low flow year.

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Economic and environmental modelling for pollution control in an estuary

Cited by 39 publications

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Evaluating alternative river management options in the tidal Ouse, UK

Evaluating alternative river management options in the tidal Ouse, UK

Environmental regulation: Industry and the marine environment

Cost Effectiveness in River Management: Evaluation of Integrated River Policy System in Tidal Ouse

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