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Urban Runoff Quality Management by Real-Time Control

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Urban Runoff Pollution

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Consider an automobile factory representing an investment of $100 million. Designed to produce a peak of 1000 cars per day, it produces at most times only about 50 cars per day. Sometimes bottlenecks and accidents occur due to the non-synchronized assembly lines, and 20% of the production is lost to the scrap heap. Sometimes parts of the production line are inundated with supplies at the same time that other parts cannot produce due to shortages. However, no one knows exactly what is happening in the plant since it runs without supervision.

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  1. Institut fuer Wasserwirtschaft, Universitaet Hannover, Callinstrasse 32, 3000, Hannover 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Wolfgang Schilling

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  1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (A-101-F), 20460, Washington, D.C., USA

    Harry C. Torno (Senior Staff Engineer) (Senior Staff Engineer)

  2. National Water Research Institute, 867 Lakeshore Road, L7R4A6, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

    Jiri Marsalek (Research Scientist) (Research Scientist)

  3. Laboratoire d’Hydrologie Mathématique, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, F-34060, Montpellier Cedex, France

    Michel Desbordes (Maître de Conférences) (Maître de Conférences)

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Schilling, W. (1986). Urban Runoff Quality Management by Real-Time Control. In: Torno, H.C., Marsalek, J., Desbordes, M. (eds) Urban Runoff Pollution. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70889-3_26

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