Water Quality Objectives

MUSIC incorporates the ability to display the predicted probabilistic water quality conditions at source nodes (eg. urban sub-catchment), treatment nodes (eg. wetland) or receiving nodes, against local or regional water quality concentration standards. Example concentration standards for TSS, TP and TN are provided, however these should only be taken as a guide and do not constitute adopted standards for any particular location. You can add any relevant values that you wish and these are then reflected in the charts when the model is run and the charts are displayed.

The most appropriate water quality concentration standards for the catchment you are investigating are likely to be those that have been derived for that specific catchment, or at least the local region. Use of the example concentration standards is only to demonstrate how the standards may be displayed in the graphs and do not represent any particular locality.