AWWA WQTC62386

AWWA WQTC62386 Testing and Verification of Real-time Water Quality Monitoring Sensors in a Distribution System against Introduced Contamination
Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2005

King, Karl L.; Kroll, Dan; Haught, Roy C.

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Drinking water distribution systems reach the majority of American homes, business andcivic areas, and are therefore an attractive target for terrorist attack via directcontamination, or backflow events.Instrumental monitoring of such systems may be used to signal the presence ofcontaminants in drinking water. There is a need to understand how and ifinstrumentation can be used to sense contaminant introduction. Tests of instrumentswere run on a simulated distribution system at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(USEPA) Test and Evaluation (T