Riverbank filtration for the treatment of highly turbid Colombian rivers

Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo; van Halem, Doris; Rietveld, Luuk

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-10-13-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-10-13-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-10-13-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Review article

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11 May 2017

Review article |

| 11 May 2017

Riverbank filtration for the treatment of highly turbid Colombian rivers

Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Doris van Halem, and Luuk Rietveld

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Final revised paper (published on 11 May 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 23 Feb 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer’s comments on manuscript no: dwes-2017-10', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Response to anonymous reviewer #1', Juan Pablo Gutierrez Marin, 20 Apr 2017
RC2: 'Review comments - Riverbank filtration for treatment of highly turbid Colombian rivers', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Mar 2017
- AC2: 'Response to anonymous reviewer #2', Juan Pablo Gutierrez Marin, 20 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Mar 2017
- AC3: 'Response to anonymous reviewer #3', Juan Pablo Gutierrez Marin, 20 Apr 2017

Short summary

In Colombia in the last decades, turbidity and contamination events have become a major concern for many environmental authorities and drinking water companies. Therefore, there is a need for alternative technologies to improve the quality of the source water used for the water supply. This article assesses the potential of using riverbank filtration for the highly turbid waters in Colombia, emphasizing water quality improvement and the influence of clogging by suspended solids.