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The
Occoquan Laboratory is organized under the Charles E. Via,
Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia
Tech. There have been resident faculty and staff at the Manassas
Laboratory since 1972. Research projects are conducted jointly
with other Virginia Tech faculty, and with investigators from
a wide range of other other institutions, including research
universities, and public agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia
and elsewhere.
Research
activities at OWML are generally organized into the following
categories:
- Reuse
of reclaimed water to supplement potable water supply
- Physical/chemical
limnology of lakes and reservoirs, with a particular interest
in the mitigation of water quality impacts due to human
activity
- Sediment-water
interactions in lakes and reservoirs
- Characterization
and control of nonpoint source and urban runoff pollution,
including the development and validation of Best Management
Pratice (BMP) technologies
- Modeling
of stream and reservior systems, with a paticular emphasis
on sediment and nutrient transport and fate in the transitions
between upland, riverine, lacustrine, and estuarine systems
- Development
of web-enabled, GIS-based, environmental information acquisition,
analysis and query systems for the suport near real-time
decision-making
- Integration
of geospatial information technologies into the solution
of environmental problems in water quality management, plannning
and development at the watershed scale
Project
List:
- The
Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Program
- Transport
of Suspended and Dissolved Constituents in the Mainstream
of the Potomac River at the Fall Line
- The
Lake Manassas Water Quality Monitoring Program
- Performance
Evaluation of an Urban Bioretention Practice in a Surburban
Catchment
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