J. Crowther

TL;DR: The findings suggest that it may be possible to develop generic statistical models to predict microbial water quality from land use and farm management data, and provide indirect evidence that channel bed sediment 'stores' closely reflect land use within their catchments and that there is little die-off of organisms along watercourses.

TL;DR: The results suggest that, prior to the schemes, higher bacterial concentrations were strongly associated with rainfall; and sewage sources were important for TC and FC, but less important for FS, which may have been more strongly affected by diffuse catchment sources.

TL;DR: Very marked, statistically significant reductions in GM FIO concentrations result from secondary and tertiary treatment, and there are statistically significant differences between some secondary and some tertiary treatments.

TL;DR: Examples are presented to illustrate how the results can be used to estimate daily summer base- and high-flow FIO loads for catchments with different land use types, and to assess the likely effectiveness of certain strategies for reducing FIO pollutant loadings in areas with extensive areas of lowland improved pasture.

TL;DR: The results suggest that modelling turbidity and or suspended solids offers a potential means of predicting T90 values in 'real-time' for discrete cells of a hydrodynamic model, and suggest that enterococci decay in irradiated experiments with turbidity >200 NTU is similar to decay observed under dark conditions.