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Water Science & Technology Vol 51 No 02 pp 171–177 © IWA Publishing 2005

Test of the efficiency of three storm water quality models with a rich set of data

M. Ahyerre*, F.O. Henry**, F. Gogien***, M. Chabanel****, M. Zug***** and D. Renaudet******

*Agence de l'eau Seine Normandie, 51 rue Salvador Allende, 92027 Nanterre cedex, France
**Safege France, Parc de l'Ile, 15/27 rue du port, BP727, 92022 Nanterre cedex, France
***Anjou Recherche, Chemin de la Digue, BP76, 78603 Maisons-Laffitte, France
****Agence de l'eau Seine Normandie, 51 rue Salvador Allende, 92027 Nanterre cedex, France
*****Anjou Recherche, Chemin de la Digue, BP76, 78603 Maisons-Laffitte, France
******Safege France, Parc de l'Ile, 15/27 rue du port, BP727, 92022 Nanterre cedex, France


ABSTRACT
The objective of this article is to test the efficiency of three different Storm Water Quality Model (SWQM) on the same data set (34 rain events, SS measurements) sampled on a 42 ha watershed in the center of Paris. The models have been calibrated at the scale of the rain event. Considering the mass of pollution calculated per event, the results on the models are satisfactory but that they are in the same order of magnitude as the simple hydraulic approach associated to a constant concentration. In a second time, the mass of pollutant at the outlet of the catchment at the global scale of the 34 events has been calculated. This approach shows that the simple hydraulic calculations gives better results than SWQM. Finally, the pollutographs are analysed, showing that storm water quality models are interesting tools to represent the shape of the pollutographs, and the dynamics of the phenomenon which can be useful in some projects for managers.

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