Example Career Path: Water Engineer Eva Mockler. Example Career Path: Water Engineer 2006 – Work placement in Malone O’Regan – Sustainable Drainage Systems.

Example Career Path: Water Engineer

Eva Mockler

Example Career Path: Water Engineer

• 2006 – Work placement in Malone O’Regan

– Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)

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– Elective subjects: Hydraulics & UTP

• 2007 - BE Civil Engineering

• 2007-09 DBFL Consulting Engineers

Example Career Path: Water Engineer

• 2009-2014 – PhD Hydrology (Prof. Bruen)

• 2014 Research Fellow in Environmental

Protection Agency

Example Career Path: Water Engineer

What are nutrients?• Nutrients are chemical elements that all living organisms

need to grow.

Effects of Nutrient Pollution• When too many nutrients, mainly nitrogen and

phosphorus, are added to water, they can act like fertilizer, causing excessive growth of algae - eutrophication.

• Excessive nitrogen and phosphorus in water can:– cause health problems, – damage the environment and – impact the economy.

Nutrients in Catchments

US EPA

Major sources of nutrients in Irish catchments:Runoff of fertilizers, animal manure, sewage treatment plant discharges, storm water runoff, car and power plant emissions, and failing septic tanks. • Point sources: all pollutant sources with end-of-pipe control• Non-point sources: Diffuse sources of nutrients

Diffuse agricultural sources

Small point sources

The nature of the soils, subsoils and aquifer effect attenuation potential…

Source-Pathway-Receptor (S-P-R) concept

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