INTERESTING PROJECTS WE ARE WORKING ON

Characterizing Water Quality Risks in the City of Calgary Distribution System:

The Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University and the City of Calgary are partnering to develop a risk assessment and mitigation framework to assist Canadian municipalities to assess water quality risk and optimize operation and maintenance strategies to protect DWDS quality. This framework will be used to identify factors that drive metal accumulation and water quality risks, examine mechanisms that lead to the accumulation/release of metals, optimize unidirectional flushing operations to prevent water quality problems, and develop a data-driven machine-learning tool to predict water quality risks and assist Canadian municipalities in planning their system operations and maintenance strategies.

RESEARCH WE HAVE PUBLISHED (SELECTED ARTICLES)

Julseth M, Ramsawak N, Payne SJ, Filion Y, Ruecker N (2020). Use of Principle Component Analysis to Identify Probable Causes of Manganese and Arsenic Occurrence in the Distribution System. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24-27, 2021 (Abstract accepted for oral presentation: October 2020).

Ramsawak N, Julseth M, Payne SJ, Filion Y, Ruecker N (2020). Investigating biofilm growth in a drinking water distribution system using heterotrophic plate count (HPC) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) methods. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24-27, 2021 (Abstract accepted for oral presentation: October 2020).

Ramsawak N, Julseth M, Payne SJ, Filion Y, Ruecker N (2020). Factors Affecting Biofilm Growth in a Water Distribution System with Physico-Chemical Parameters as an Indicator of Biofilm Formation. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24-27, 2021 (Abstract submitted: September 2020).

Braga A, Saulnier R, Cushing A, Filion Y (2020) Dynamics of material detachment from drinking water pipes under flushing conditions in a full scale drinking water laboratory system. Urban Water Journal. DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2020.1800759.

Braga AS, Filion Y (2020) A New Imaging Technique to Characterize Iron Oxide Deposits on Pipe Wall Coupon Samples. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24-27, 2021. (Abstract accepted for poster presentation or video-on-demand: October 2020).

Braga AS, Filion Y (2020) Direct Observations of Fine Iron Oxide Particle Deposits on Pipe Wall Coupons in a Full-Scale Drinking Water System Laboratory. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24-27, 2021. (Abstract accepted for oral presentation: October 2020).