Development and Adoption of a Simple Nonpoint Source Pollution Model for Port Phillip Bay, Australia

Abstract

New computing tools and approaches allow tailored development of software to meet the needs of environmental managers, The processes required for such tailoring fit well with adaptive management concepts where, as knowledge and system understanding develop among managers, the software can be developed or replaced to match. This paper reports on development and adoption of a simple nonpoint source pollution modeling tool, including technical aspects of data support for modeling and social aspects of software design. The software, named FILTER, used a unit load model to generate expected pollutant loads from subcatchments of Port Phillip Bay, Australia. Monitoring data were used for calibratio..