Click the Pollutants button to open the Pollutant Editor window.
Button | Description |
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Add one pollutant | |
Delete selected pollutants. Please note to use Ctrl and Shift keys for multiple selection. | |
Import a group of pollutants | |
Export all the pollutants |
- Name: This is the name assigned to the pollutant, which serves as its identifier in the model.
- Units: It specifies the concentration units in which the pollutant’s concentration is expressed. Options include milligrams per liter (mg/L), micrograms per liter (ug/L), or counts per liter (#/L).
- Rain Concentration: This property represents the concentration of the pollutant in rainwater, typically measured in the chosen concentration units.
- GW Concentration: This property defines the concentration of the pollutant in groundwater, also measured in the selected concentration units.
- I&I Concentration: Concentration of the pollutant in Infiltration/Inflow (I&I) events, often expressed in the concentration units.
- DWF Concentration: This is the concentration of the pollutant in dry weather sanitary flow (DWF). However, this value can be overridden for specific nodes in the conveyance system.
- Initial Concentration: It indicates the concentration of the pollutant throughout the conveyance system at the beginning of the simulation.
- Decay Coefficient: It represents the first-order decay coefficient of the pollutant, typically measured in inverse days (1/days). This coefficient describes how the pollutant degrades over time.
- Snow Only: A check on or off option that specifies whether pollutant buildup occurs only when there is snow cover. The default is usually off.
- Co-Pollutant: This field allows you to specify the name of another pollutant whose runoff concentration contributes to the runoff concentration of the current pollutant. It establishes a relationship between pollutants.
- Co-Fraction: It defines the fraction of the co-pollutant’s runoff concentration that contributes to the runoff concentration of the current pollutant. This parameter quantifies the extent of influence from the co-pollutant.
An example use case for the co-pollutant relationship is when the runoff concentration of a heavy metal is a fixed fraction of the runoff concentration of suspended solids. In such a scenario, suspended solids would be declared as the co-pollutant for the heavy metal.