Design of Turbidity Controls for Oklahoma Highway Construction
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2013-03-01
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TRIS Online Accession Number:01516169
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Abstract:The Environmental protection Agency (USEPA) has issued new requirements on the construction industry to control the discharge of pollutants from the sites. The construction effluent guidelines or ELG’s require construction sites to reduce the pollutant discharge to ‘maximum extent practicable’ and comply with the Clean Water Act. Sediment is the primary pollutant in a construction site effluent runoff. It is mainly composed of large amounts of fine silt, clay and colloidal particles. These particles have low settling velocities and remain in suspension for long durations and therefore cannot be trapped effectively in conventional BMP’s like detention ponds, grass lined channels, sedimentation basins that rely on gravity for settling. The trapping efficiencies of the particles can be enhanced by flocculation, where addition of the flocculant to the sediment discharge would bind multiple particles together, increasing them in size and increasing the settling velocity. Construction sites often experience space restrictions and therefore a modular sediment trapping system based on flocculation would require much less space compared to a settling pond especially in those regions which have high clay content in their soil, which is commonly found in state of Oklahoma. The following report presents the improved design for our passive flocculent and mixing devices. The report includes the refined algorithms for the prediction of the flocculation system performance to remove the sediment from the construction site runoff and the simple Visual Basic Model designed for turbidity control. Preliminary research data required to quantify the turbidity constants for Port A and Port B soils from Oklahoma is presented.
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