The Fairfax County Water Authority response to the Colonial oil spill of March 28, 1993

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dc.contributor.authorBonacquisti, Thomas P.en
dc.contributor.committeechairKnocke, William R.en
dc.contributor.committeechairGodrej, Adil N.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGrizzard, Thomas J.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnvironmental Sciences and Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:52:14Zen
dc.date.adate2009-12-23en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:52:14Zen
dc.date.issued1994-04-18en
dc.date.rdate2009-12-23en
dc.date.sdate2009-12-23en
dc.description.abstractThe Fairfax County Water Authority (FCW A) is one of the largest water purveyors in Virginia, producing an average of 111 million gallons of water per day for approximately 960,000 people. Located in Northern Virginia, FCW A supplies drinking water to Fairfax, Prince William, and Loudoun Counties, the Town of Herndon, the City of Alexandria, and several federal institutions within the area. The Potomac River and the Occoquan Reservoir constitute the raw surface water supplies for the service area. On March 28, 1993, a 36-inch oil transportation line ruptured, spilling in excess of 400,000 gallons of No.2 fuel oil in the vicinity of Reston, Virginia. This massive spill severely contaminated the Potomac River and forced a complete shutdown of FCWA's Corbalis Water Treatment Plant (WTP) for 13 days. Since the Corbalis WTP normally meets 50 percent of the water demand, production from FCW A's other treatment facilities, drawing from the Occoquan Reservoir, had to be dramatically increased during a period of unusually harsh raw water conditions.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentix, 100 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12232009-020232en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232009-020232/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46368en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V851_1994.B662.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 31006880en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V851 1994.B662en
dc.subject.lcshOil spills -- Virginiaen
dc.subject.lcshWater -- Purification -- Virginiaen
dc.titleThe Fairfax County Water Authority response to the Colonial oil spill of March 28, 1993en
dc.typeMaster's projecten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Sciences and Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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