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Ribeira de Grāndola
(Portugal)

 

 

 


1. Location.



2. Descriptive data for study catchment


Catchment area

265 Km2
Stream length:  40 Km
Climate:  Mediterranean
Annual rainfall:  670 mm/year
Mean annual discharge at river mouth:  1.44 m3/s (0 - 123 m3/s)
Altitudinal range headwater to river mouth:  320 m
Population inhabitants
Lithology: 
Land uses:


3. Descriptive Data for Study Subcatchment
(catchment defined by WWTP)


Catchment area:

  km2
Stream length:
Annual rainfall:   mm/year
Mean annual discharge before WWTP effluent:   m3/s
Altitudinal range from headwater to WWTP effluent: m
Population: inhabitants
Distribution of population:
Lithology:
Land uses:


4. Wastewater Treatment Plant


Geographic location: 

Altitude: 

m a. s. l. 

Origin of sewage inputs to WWTP: 

Equivalent drained population: 

  equivalent inhabitants/day 

Type of nutrient treatment: 

Treated outflow discharge:  

  m3/s

Design outflow discharge: 

COD: 

mg O2/L 

BOD: 

mg O2/L 

Suspended solids: 

Conductivity: 

N: 

mg/L
P: mg/L
Dissolved oxygen:


5. Descriptive data for experimental reach
(data for the reference subreach, upstream of WWTP effluent)


  • Morphology

    • Width:  m 

    • Depth:  cm 

    • Dominant substrata type:

  • Water chemistry

    • Major ions: NA

    • Nutrients availability : NA

    • PH: NA

    • Conductivity:  

  • Biological communities

    • Dominant strata and species of riparian vegetation:  

    • Dominant aquatic primary producers:  

    • Macroinvertebrates: 

    • Dominant fishes:  

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