| Sanitation systems discharge diffusion into sea and operational management of their impacts on bathing water quality The new European Directive concerning the management of bathing water quality drives the littoral communities towards operational management tools for an actual management of the beaches according to the impacts of the urban discharges. Beyond the progressive modernisation of the sanitation system itself, taking into account globally all the chronic factors impacting the beaches is only made possible by using decision-making systems based on a better knowledge of the sources of contamination and on the numerical modelling of the diffusion into the sea. Such a system, easy to operate, was developed by Veolia and Ifremer for the agglomeration... |
