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      Improving water quality in stormwater & river systems: an approach for determining resources

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          This paper is a showcase of the approach used to determine the additional resources required to improve inland water quality in the City of Cape Town to an acceptable level. As the improvement of water quality falls in the more complex realm of modern municipal engineering - where many of the issues are so-called "soft" in nature and the problems and solutions are not straightforward - the methods discussed in this paper were instrumental in creating an holistic overview of the state of the rivers and wetlands in the City of Cape Town, highlighting the complexity of the problem and assisting to plot a way forward to provide proactive, sustainable measures for the management of water pollution. The paper discusses: the evaluation of water quality data, catchment analysis and determination of pollution sources, a risk assessment, and a prioritisation exercise, and concludes with the novel points and obstacles encountered. In all, the methods discussed provide a significant contribution towards the quest to improve water quality in the City of Cape Town.

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                Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering
                J. S. Afr. Inst. Civ. Eng.
                South African Institution of Civil Engineering (Midrand )
                2309-8775
                April 2013
                : 55
                : 1
                : 22-35
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                S1021-20192013000100003
                ee335c58-e6d9-4ff0-9419-313158ee729a

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Engineering, Civil

                Civil engineering
                City of Cape Town,stormwater,pollution,methodology,resources
                Civil engineering
                City of Cape Town, stormwater, pollution, methodology, resources

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