An Innovative Model-Based Methodology for Rapid Response to Drinking Water Contamination Events

Sotirios Paraskevopoulos; Stelios G. Vrachimis; Marios S. Kyriakou; Mirjam Blokker; Patrick Smeets; Demetrios G. Eliades; Marios Polycarpou; Gertjan Medema

doi:10.3390/engproc2024069045

An Innovative Model-Based Methodology for Rapid Response to Drinking Water Contamination Events

Sotirios Paraskevopoulos^*, Stelios G. Vrachimis, Marios S. Kyriakou, Mirjam Blokker, Patrick Smeets, Demetrios G. Eliades, Marios Polycarpou, Gertjan Medema

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Abstract

In a desktop exercise, a water utility’s emergency response to suspected wastewater contamination in a drinking water network was compared with a model-based approach using PathoINVEST. This tool simulates contamination scenarios and assists with locating the source of contamination using sampling results. The sampling procedure used a portable sensor that offers rapid (20 min time-to-result) screening of fecal contamination. Preliminary results show that the model-based approach is able to find the contamination source faster and with fewer samples than current practices. Integrating modeling and rapid sensor tools in emergency responses improves decision-making and public health protection in drinking water networks.

Original language	English
Article number	45
Number of pages	4
Journal	Engineering Proceedings
Volume	69
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2024069045
Publication status	Published - 2024

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drinking water contamination modeling
emergency response
source identification

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