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The mathematical modeling in the simulation of self-purification capacity in lotic environment is an important tool in the planning and management of hydric resources in hydrographic basin scale. It satisfactorily deals with the self-purification process when the coefficients of physical and biochemical processes are calibrated from monitorated water quality data, which was the main focus of this study. The present study was conducted to simulate the behavior of the parameters OD, BOD 5 , total phosphorus, E. coli, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and the total metals cadmium, chromium, copper, lead and zinc in the Uberabinha's lower course (with an approximate annual growth flow between 4-35 m 3 /s), in a stretch of 19 km downstream of the treated effluent release by the WWTP of the city. The modelings, on the present study, show the importance of constant water quality parameters monitoration over the water course, based on the comparison of the simulations from calibrated coefficients and coefficients obtained in the literature for the period of June until November 2015. After coefficients calibration, there were good adjustments between simulated and measured data for the parameters OD, BOD, P total , ammonia and nitrate and unsatisfactory adjust for the parameters nitrite and E. coli. About the total metals, the adjustments were not satisfactory on the reservoir's vicinity of the Small Hydropower Plant Martins, due the considerable increase of the bottom sediment in lentic region. The greatest scientific contribution of this study was to calibrate the decay coefficient K and the quantification of the release by the fund S of total metals in watercourse midsize WWTP pollutant load receptor, justified by the lack of studies in the literature about the subject. For the metals cadmium, chromium, copper, lead and zinc, the borderline for K and S calibrated were: 0.0 to 13.0 day -1 and 0.0 to 1.7 g/m 3 .day; 0.0 to 0.9 day -1 and 0.0 to 7.3 g/m 3 .day; 0.0 to 25.0 day -1 and 0.0 to 1.8 g/m 3 .day; 0.0 to 7.0 day -1 and 0.0 to 40.3 g/m 3 .day; 0.0 to 30.0 day -1 and 0.0 to 70.1 g/m 3 .day.
Aim To demonstrate the importance of calibration in mathematical modeling of self-purification in lotic environments, this study simulated the behavior of various parameters in a river with average annual flows between 4.0 and 32.0 m3.s-1, in a segment downstream from the entry of treated wastewater from a sewage treatment station (average monthly flow of 2.1 m3.s-1). Methods Numerical solution by finite difference of the advection-diffusion equation was used to study the dispersion and to quantify and monitor the evolution over time of the parameters DO, BOD5, Ptotal, NH3, NO3- and the levels of the heavy metals cadmium, chromium, copper, lead and zinc. The longitudinal behavior of the water quality parameters simulated by calibrating the state variables was compared with the behavior of the same parameters simulated via state variables available in the literature. The sensitivity of the state variables was also analyzed. Results The calibration process led to good fits between the simulated and actual data for all the parameters analyzed. On the other hand, the comparison of the water quality model using calibrated state variables with the model based on state variables obtained in the literature revealed inconsistencies regarding the parameters DO, Ptotal, ammonia, nitrate and all the heavy metals. Conclusions Considering the wide threshold ranges of the state variables in the literature and the dearth of studies on calibrating the coefficient of decay and quantifying the release of heavy metals by bottom sediment, this study can serve as a base for future investigations in lotic environments with similar hydraulic and water quality characteristics.
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