Statistical Methods for the Assessment of Point Source Pollution : Proceedings of a Workshop on Statistical Methods for the Assessment of Point Source Pollution, Held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada

This book contains the proceedings of a workshop, 'Statistical Methods for the Assess­ ment of Point Source Pollution', held September 12-14, 1988, at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The objectives of the workshop were to: a) advance the art, science, and application of statistical methods to current water quality issues by stimulating discussions and disseminating ideas and information. The emphasis was on statistical problems associated with monitor­ ing and controlling discharges from industries and municipalities and assessing the impact of these discharges on receiving water quality, b) provide a forum for managers, engineers, scientists, and statisticians to present and discuss techniques for evaluating water quality data and planning monitoring activities, c) provide a published state-of-the art summary of the application of statistical methods for the assessment of point source discharges and their impact on water qUality. The papers contained in this volume cover a number of topics that are of concern not only for monitoring and assessing point source pollution but also for other environmental problems. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Some Statistical Considerations in the Assessment of Compliance....Pages 3-12 A Proposed MISA Approach to Setting Limits and Assessing Compliance....Pages 13-28 Use of Statistical Methods in Industrial Water Pollution Control Regulations in the United States....Pages 29-48 Continuous Effluent Consents: Modelling and Compliance Testing....Pages 49-64 Auditing the Quality of Effluent Discharges....Pages 65-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Intervention Analysis in Environmental Engineering....Pages 85-101 The Effect of Autocorrelated Errors on Change-Detection Statistics....Pages 103-126 Time Series Analysis of Unequally Spaced Observations - With Applications to Copper Contamination of the River Gaula in Central Norway....Pages 127-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 A Statistics-Based System for Treatment Plant Operation....Pages 147-169 State Estimation in Wastewater Engineering: Application to an Anaerobic Process....Pages 171-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Some Comments on Analysis Techniques for Censored Water Quality Data....Pages 185-193 Inferences About the Variability of Means from Censored Data....Pages 195-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Evaluation of Phosphorus Loads from Ontario Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants....Pages 207-221 On the Estimation of Phosphorus from the Niagara River to Lake Ontario....Pages 223-230 Status of the Niagara River Point Source Discharge Information: Sampling Design and Estimation of Loading....Pages 231-241 Inferences about Point Source Loadings from Upstream/Downstream River Monitoring Data....Pages 243-257 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Measures of Flow Variability for Great Lakes Tributaries....Pages 261-277 Statistical Zonation of Sediment Samples Using Ratio Matching and Cluster Analysis....Pages 279-304 Front Matter....Pages 305-305 Robust Graphical Methods for Diagnosing Trend in Irregularly Spaced Water Quality Time Series....Pages 307-328 Development of a Software Package for Trend Detection in Temporal Series: Application to Water and Industrial Effluent Quality Data for the St. Lawrence River....Pages 329-341 Front Matter....Pages 305-305 Statistical Software for Microcomputers — A User’s View....Pages 343-361 Back Matter....Pages 363-373