This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, and its water distribution system. Project objectives include: updating model for contamination simulations; identifying water system infrastructure vulnerability;
developing an emergency response protocol; and,
preventing the shutdown of the whole distribution system. Model development is presented, along with contamination simulations, and two case studies. Limitations of modeling approach include:
lack of decay coefficient data of the contaminants
makes model to simulate the contaminant as
conservative chemical, which may over-estimate
the affected area; back-tracing the source of contamination is still a
challenging job for model; and,
the assumptions in the model, such as applying
the same daily usage patterns to grouped
customers, limit the result only as an
approximation of what happens in the real system.