Title:
Recovery Time Analysis in Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina

dc.contributor.author Gokgoz Kilic, Sinem
dc.contributor.author Aral, Mustafa M.
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-06-25T21:37:08Z
dc.date.available 2013-06-25T21:37:08Z
dc.date.issued 2007-03
dc.description Proceedings of the 2007 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 27-29, 2007, Athens, Georgia. en_US
dc.description.abstract After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005, floodwaters covering New Orleans were pumped into Lake Pontchartrain as part of rehabilitation process to make the city habitable again. The long term consequences of this environmentally critical decision were left to observation. This paper examines the likely response of Lake Pontchartrain to the load of contaminants that were possibly in the flood waters via modeling several hypothetical scenarios. As a preliminary outcome, this study provides a useful tool to assess the possible extent of damage inflicted on the natural water resources of Southern Louisiana or similar environments elsewhere. An unsteady state fugacity model is developed in order to examine the environmental effects of contaminants on surface water bodies which have different physicochemical characteristics. Since the available data on the event is limited, uncertainty analysis is necessary. Thus, as a secondary outcome, the study further investigates the effects of the uncertainty in the parameters used in the model on the outcome using Monte Carlo analysis. The results indicate that Lake Pontchartrain, which was recovering from earlier assaults on its water quality, will continue for a long while on its path to recovery. Application of the derived model to three contaminants shows that the recovery time of the lake for the contaminant levels to go back down to MCL (maximum contaminant levels) values range between about a year and sixty eight years for the three contaminants considered in this study. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility This book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397) or the other conference sponsors.
dc.embargo.terms null en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48012
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries GWRI2007. Water quality en_US
dc.subject Water resources management en_US
dc.subject Water pollutants en_US
dc.subject Flood waters en_US
dc.subject Unsteady state fugacity model en_US
dc.subject Monte Carlo analysis en_US
dc.subject Maximum contaminant levels en_US
dc.title Recovery Time Analysis in Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
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