Start Date: 2006
End Date: 2007
Full Citation:
Kansas Water Office, 2006 - 2007, $99,602. "Taste & Odor Event Predicting." PI: D. Huggins, Co-PI: A. Dzialowski, J. DeNoyelles.
Category:
- Aquatic
Associated with the KU Field Station: No
Research Summary:
Taste and odor events impact drinking water reservoirs throughout the state. Cyanobacteria are most often associated with taste and odor events because several species are known to produce chemical compounds (i.e. geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol-MIB) that cause drinking water to taste and smell bad. Therefore, understanding what environmental factors impact the abundances of these organisms, and how they influence specific taste and odor events, are important management priorities.
The State Water Plan Fund at the Kansas Water Office funded the Kansas Biological Survey to study taste and odor events in Kansas reservoirs. In an attempt to develop relatively simple tools that can be used to predict the occurrence of taste and odor events, KBS used a number of complimentary approaches included newly collected reservoir data, previously collected data from research units and treatment plants, and remotely sensed data. The Taste and Odor Workgroup was created to help translate the results from our research into usable treatment strategies. The workgroup consists of scientists and representatives from university, state and federal agencies and water treatment facilities. The workgroup held its first meeting on 21 July 2006 at the Kansas Biological Survey to provide an overview of the project and establish the workgroup goals and objectives. Presentations from the meeting (project overview and initial data, remote sensing) are available. Follow up meetings were 3 Nov. 2006 and 25 Apr. 2007.
Final report - Dzialowski, A.R., D.G. Huggins, J. deNoyelles, M. Jakubauskas, N.C. Lim, and J. Beury. 2007. Predicting Taste and Odor Events in Kansas Reservoirs - Phase 1. Open-file Report No. 143. Version 1. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS. 62 pp.
Published article - Dzialowski, A. R., V. H. Smith, D. G. Huggins, F. deNoyelles, N. C. Lim, D. S. Baker, and J. Beury. 2009. Development of Predictive Models for Geosmin-Related Taste and Odor in Kansas, USA, Drinking Water Reservoirs. Water Research 43 (2009) 2829-2840.