WATER9

Description

WATER9, the wastewater treatment model, is a Windows based computer program and consists of analytical expressions for estimating air emissions of individual waste constituents in wastewater collection, storage, treatment, and disposal facilities; a database listing many of the organic compounds; and procedures for obtaining reports of constituent fates, including air emissions and treatment effectiveness.

Questions this resource can help answer

What are the air toxics attributable to water treatment facilities?

How do I use this resource?

This is a downloadable program that would be used to quantify the air impacts of water treatment

Pro tips

Resource information

Resource owner

Format

Website

Backup URL

Update Frequency

Irregularly

Geographic Coverage

United States

Technical specifications

Methodology

WATER9 is used to estimate air emissions from site specific water treatment plants (including the prediction of biodegradation and sludge sorption of organics) for common wastewater treatment units including the following: drains, sumps, weirs, open drains, j traps, manhole covers, trenches, buried conduits (sewers), junction boxes, pump stations, clarifiers, trickling filters, aerated impoundments, quiescent impoundments, cooling towers, activated sludge units, storage tanks, wastewater separators, and settling ponds

Sectors

Commercial

Other Specifications

Program is largely deprecated and was designed to operate on Windows Vista

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