MONITORING KUALITAS AIR SECARA ON-LINE: STUDI KASUS SUNGAI BRANTAS

Abstract

Twenty three on-line water quality monitoring stations have been built along Brantas river in East Java. The construction of these on-line stations has been aimed at providing accurate, real-time, programmed, and continuous data on the quality of the Brantas river water, such that the occurrence of a certain level of water pollution can be detected on time. The placement of these twenty three stations, as well as the types of parameters detected by the sensors inside the stations, has been based on the characteristics of the river water at each location. With this, the source of water pollution can be detected more accurately. The measured parameters include pH, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, orthophosphate, and ammonia.