Author(s): Maria Emma Orejudo Prieto De Los Mozos

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Keywords: Water quality; Waste water discharges control; Water authority; Monitoring in real time

Abstract: The Tagus River Basin Authority launched more than 25 years ago an automatic water quality information system in water bodies named SAICA Network. Since then, the SAICA Network has been improving and expanding through technologies and communications. The incorporation of quality control of waste water discharges into the SAICA Network has been one of the advances in the system. The holders of the waste water discharge permits install their continuous measurement systems and transmit in real-time the quality of the treated waste water data for its integration into the SAICA. The SAICA Network has proven to be a very useful tool in controlling compliance with the emission values established in the discharge permits, in the early detection of incidents and in the ability to relate pollution episodes observed at the SAICA stations located in surface water bodies which have waste water discharges located upstream.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221923

Year: 2022