Computer Aided Source Water Monitoring For Quality and Security Optimization

摘要

Source waters are vulnerable to intentional or accidental contamination. There are anumber of potential problems with implementing a monitoring system for source water.The use of advanced chemometrics techniques have been proven to be effective inrecognizing and classifying events in the complex matrix of the drinking waterdistribution system. The use of these same algorithms with a different sensor set tomonitor source water is described here. A trial program in coordination with the USGS isbeing conducted to determine if the use of these algorithms for this application isfeasible. A series of monitoring stations on a major watershed will have their data runthrough the algorithms to see if events can be recognized and alarm threshold levels set.Samples will be collected and an analysis run to determine the cause of any recognizedevents. The data will be collected from fall 2006 for a period of at least 12 months. Ifsuccessful this new tool opens a new vista for source water monitoring for both terror andpollution related events.