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Bob McEwen Treatment Plant Data (support ECM) and Water Quality Translation Data (support PDL)

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2015-07-01
Worksheet titled Data for ECM: Data set used to estimate the error correction model to understand how turbidity and other variables affect drinking water treatment costs. Worksheet titled Data for PDL: Data set used to estimate the polynomial distributed lag model to understand how phosphorus load entering reservoir impacts turbidity at the drinking water treatment plant. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Heberling , M., C. Nietch , H. Thurston , M. Elovitz , K. Birkenhauer, S. Panguluri, B. Ramakrishnan, E. Heiser, and T. Neyer. Comparing drinking water treatment costs to source water protection costs using time series analysis.. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, 51(11): 8741-8756, (2015).

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