TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying sources of infiltration and inflow in sanitary sewers in a northern community
T2 - comparative assessment of selected methods
AU - Panasiuk, Oleksandr
AU - Hedström, Annelie
AU - Langeveld, Jeroen
AU - Viklander, Maria
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Infiltration and inflow (I/I) into sanitary sewers causes numerous negative effects on the whole wastewater management system and ultimately, on the receiving waters. Consequently, a number of methods have been developed to analyse the performance of sewer systems with respect to I/I, including: distributed temperature sensing (DTS), closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections, flow and conductivity measurements, automatic or grab sampling of ammonium, smoke testing, and visual inspection of manholes. Such methods were compared in an application to sanitary sewers in a small community and assessed with respect to their accuracy and ability to identify locations of sources of I/I, as well as temporal and spatial resolutions of the obtained results. Furthermore, different approaches to ammonium sampling during I/I monitoring campaigns were discussed. It was concluded that among the methods tested in this study, DTS had the highest temporal and spatial resolution, while ammonium grab sampling showed promise for initial screening of large catchments.
AB - Infiltration and inflow (I/I) into sanitary sewers causes numerous negative effects on the whole wastewater management system and ultimately, on the receiving waters. Consequently, a number of methods have been developed to analyse the performance of sewer systems with respect to I/I, including: distributed temperature sensing (DTS), closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections, flow and conductivity measurements, automatic or grab sampling of ammonium, smoke testing, and visual inspection of manholes. Such methods were compared in an application to sanitary sewers in a small community and assessed with respect to their accuracy and ability to identify locations of sources of I/I, as well as temporal and spatial resolutions of the obtained results. Furthermore, different approaches to ammonium sampling during I/I monitoring campaigns were discussed. It was concluded that among the methods tested in this study, DTS had the highest temporal and spatial resolution, while ammonium grab sampling showed promise for initial screening of large catchments.
KW - ammonium
KW - closed-circuit television inspection
KW - conductivity
KW - distributed temperature sensing
KW - infiltration and inflow
KW - wastewater
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134103862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2166/wst.2022.151
DO - 10.2166/wst.2022.151
M3 - Article
C2 - 35838279
AN - SCOPUS:85134103862
SN - 0273-1223
VL - 86
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
JF - Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
IS - 1
ER -