Design of an oil spill control system for the protection of wetland ecosystems at the Humber Creek

• 作 者: JamesLi;
• 机 构: Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
• 出 处: 中国水利学会2015学术年会
• 发表日期: 2015年期

　　Oil spills in urban areas affect air, water, and soil and their local terrestrial and aquatic species (Li and McAteer 2000).Great Lakes contain about 20# world fresh water and support the livelihood of more than 30 million of Canadian and American.There are 16 Areas of Concern on the Canadian side of Great Lakes in which three levels of Canadian government have spent effort to restore degraded water quality.Recognizing the Toronto Area of Concern's water quality restoration targets and priorities (e.g.spill control), Canada's Great Lakes Sustainability Fund (GLSF), the City of Toronto, and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's Spills Action Centre (SAC) sponsored a study to design an oil spill control system to protect the proposed wetland ecosystem at the Humber Creek of the City of Toronto.This extended abstract describes the design of the oil spill control system and a physical model study of the associated performance.