Dr Declan Page Publications

Refereed Papers

Levett, K.J., Vanderzalm, J.L., Page D.W. and Dillon P.J. (2009 – in preparation) Survey of on-site wastewater treatment systems located over a karstic aquifer, Water Science and Technology.

Sidhu, J. P. Toze, S., Hodgers, L., Shackelton, M., Barry, K., Page, D., and Dillon, P. (2009 – to be submitted) Pathogen inactivation during aquifer storage, transfer and recovery scheme with storm water, Water Science and Technology.

Wakelin, S.A., Page, D.W., Pavelic, P., Gregg, A.L. and Dillon, P.J. (2009 – accepted). Rich communities of archaea, bacteria, and eukarya inhabit water treatment biofilters and are differentially affected by filter type and sampling depth, Water Science and Technology.

Toze, S., Bekele, E., Page, D., Sidhu, J. and Shackleton, M. (2009 - accepted) Use of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment to Determine Pathogen Risks in an Unconfined Carbonate Aquifer Used for Managed Aquifer Recharge, Water Research.

Page, D. and Toze, S. (2009) Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) for water reuse via aquifers, Microbiology Australia, 30, 1, 20-21.

Dillon, P., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Vanderzalm, J., Levett, K. and Stevens, D. (2008) Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling, Managing Health and Environmental Risks, Volume 2C – Managed Aquifer Recharge, Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council Environment Protection and Heritage Council National Health and Medical Research Council.

Dillon, P., Page, D., Vanderzalm, J., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Bekele, E., Prommer, H., Higginson, S., Regel, R., Rinck-Pfeiffer, S., Purdie, M., Pitman, C., Wintgens, T. (2008) A critical evaluation of combined engineered and aquifer treatment systems in water recycling, Water Science and Technology, 57(5) 753-762.

Lin, E., Page, D. and Pavelic, P. (2008) A new method to evaluate polydisperse kaolinite clay particle removal in roughing filtration using colloid filtration theory, Water Research, 42, 669-676.

Page, D. (2005) Organic matter analysis in soils, water, waste and air, Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment, Editor: Leo M.L. Nollet, CRC Press, ISBN: 0824726294.

Page D.W. (2003) Characterisation of organic matter from Corin Reservoir, Australia, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 70, 169-183.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., and Mulcahy, D.E. (2003), Application of pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for characterisation of dissolved organic matter before and after water treatment, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 67, 2, 247-262.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., Drikas, M. and Mulcahy, D.E. (2002), Effect of alum treatment on the trihalomethane formation and bacterial regrowth potentials of natural and synthetic waters, Water Research, 36, 19, 4884-4892.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., and Mulcahy, D.E. (2002), Pyrolysis Characterisation of soil, litter and vegetation extracts from Australian catchments, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 65, 2, 249-265.

Page, D.W., Leeming, R., Magyar, C., Horsburgh, B., Lawrence, I. and Sritharan, T.P. (2002), Thermotolerant Coliform Blooms in Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra in March-April 2001, Journal of the Australian Water Association, Water, 29, 5.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., and Mulcahy, D.E. (2001), Tracing terrestrial compounds leaching from two reservoir catchments as input to dissolved organic matter (DOM), Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 52, 2, 223-233.

Page, D.W. (2001) The characterisation of terrestrially-derived dissolved organic matter before and after water treatment, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Chemical Technology, University of South Australia.

Chow, C.W. K., van Leeuwen, J. A., Drikas, M., Fabris, R., Spark, K.M. and Page, D.W. (1999), The impact of natural organic matter in conventional treatment with alum, Water Science and Technology, 40, 97-104.

Reports, Conference Proceedings and Lightly Refereed Publications

Doan, H., Kumar, A., Gonzago, D., Woods, M., Barry, K., Page, D. and Dillon, P. (2009) Preliminary ecotoxicological assessment of water in a reed-bed and aquifer at Salisbury stormwater ASTR project, 13th Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology Conference, 20-23 September 2009, Adelaide South Australia.

Vanderzalm, J., Dillon, P., Page, D., Marvanek, S., Lamontagne, S., Cook, P., King, H., Dighton, J., Sherman, B., Adams, L. (2009). Protecting the Blue Lake from land use impacts. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship.

Ayuso-Gabella, M.N., Barry, K., Bixio, D., Cauwenberghs, J., Chassagne, A., Dillon, P., Genthe, P., Jeffrey, P., Kopač, I., Le Corre, K., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Regel, R., Salgot, M. and Saperas, N., Schreiber, M. Steyn, M., Thoeye, C., Tredoux, G., Van Houtte, E. (2009) Work Package 6 Case study related risk studies: Deliverable 6.2 Final report on risk assessment, management and communication in selected case studies including recommendation of standard procedures, RECLAIM WATER project, internal report, Contract-No. 018309.

Page, D., Vanderzalm, J., Barry, K., Levett, K., Kremer, S., Ayuso-Gabella, M. N., Dillon, P., Toze, S., Sidhu, J., Shackleton, M., Purdie M. and Regel R. (2009) Operational residual risk assessment for the Salisbury stormwater ASTR project, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Report.

Kumar, et al… (2009) Preliminary ecotoxicological assessment of water before and after treatment in a reedbed and aquifer at Salisbury stormwater ASTR project, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Report.

Vanderzalm, J., Dillon, P., Page, D., Marvanek, S., Lamontagne, S., Cook, P., King, H., Dighton, J., Sherman, B and Adams. L. (2009). Protecting the Blue Lake from land use impacts-Final Report. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Report.

R. Regel, S., Rinck-Pfeiffer, K. Barry, K. Levett, D. Page, J. Vanderzalm, S. Kremer, S. Toze, J. Sidhu, N. Ayuso-Gabella, M. Shackleton, P. Dillon, P. Pavelic, M. Purdie, C. Pitman, B. Nauman, C. Marles, N. Power and C. Kazner, (2009) Research on potential for indirect potable use of urban stormwater recycled via an aquifer in Salisbury, South Australia, REUSE 09, 20-25th September, Brisbane, Australia.

Vanderzalm, J.L., Page, D.W. and Dillon, P.J. (2009) Managing an operating stormwater reuse via MAR: retrofitting a 100 year old scheme to a current risk management framework, REUSE 09, 20-25th September, Brisbane, Australia.

Dillon, P., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Vanderzalm, J., Levett, K., English, L. and Stevens, D. (2009) Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling Via Managed Aquifer Recharge: An Introduction, REUSE 09, 20-25th September, Brisbane, Australia.

Dillon, P., Toze, S., Page, D., Vanderzalm, J., Bekele, E. Sidhu, J. and Rinck-Pfeiffer, S. (2009) Managed Aquifer Recharge: Rediscovering Nature as a Leading Edge Technology, IWA Leading Edge Technologies Conference, Singapore, June 09

Page, D., Barry, K., Pavelic, P., Dillon P. and Chassagne, A. (2008) Preliminary quantitative risk assessment for the Salisbury stormwater ASTR Project, CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, ISSN: 1835-095X.

Toze, S., .Page, D. and Barron, O., (2008). Quantitative microbial risk assessment of Brighton superficial groundwater supply. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, ISSN: 1835-095X.

Dillon, P., Pavelic, P., Page, D., Beringen H. and Ward J. (2008) Managed Aquifer Recharge: An Introduction, Waterlines Occasional Paper No 13, February 2009].

Ayuso-Gabella, M.N., Bixio, D., Kopač, I., Page, D., Regel, R., Salgot, M., Saperas, N., Schreiber, M., Thoeye, C., Van Houtte, E. (2008) Milestone M6.3, HACCP application in selected case studies completed, RECLAIM WATER project, internal report, Contract-No. 018309.

Contreras, S, Dillon, P., Cook, P., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Lin, E., Barry, K., Ellis D., Howe P., Love A. (2008) Enhancing agricultural production in the Philippines by sustainable use of shallow groundwater, ACIAR project SMCN/2003/006 Final Report.

Dillon, P., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Vanderzalm, J., Barry, K., Levett, K., Regel, R., Rinck-Pfeiffer, S., Pitman, C., Purdie, M., Marles, C., and Power, N.  (2008) City of Salisbury’s progress towards being its own drinking water catchment, International Environment and Water Conference (IEWC07), 28 – 30 Nov 2008, SUNTEC Singapore.

Ayuso-Gabella, M.N., Barry, K., Bixio, D., Dillon, P., Genthe, B. Jefferson, B., Jeffrey, P., Kopač, I., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Purdie, M., Regel, R., Rinck-pfeiffer, S., Salgot, M., Van Houtte, E., and Wintgens T. (2007) RECLAIM WATER D6.1 Report on case-study specific risk assessment, RECLAIM WATER Deliverable 6.1., Contract-No. 018309.

Page, D. and Dillon, P. (2007) Measurement of the biodegradable fraction of dissolved organic matter relevant to water reclamation via aquifers, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Report, ISSN: 1835-095X.

Wakelin, S., Page, D., Chassagne, A., Gregg, A., Barry, K. and Dillon, P. (2007) Unravelling the complexity of microbial communities in biofilters using community-level DNA fingerprinting, ISMAR6: The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 28 – November 2, 2007.

Page, D., Barry, K., Chassagne, A., Pavelic, P., Dillon, P., Purdie, M., Pittman, C., Rinck-Pfeiffer, S. and Regel, R. (2007) Application of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) risk management framework to managed aquifer recharge, ISMAR6: The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 28 – November 2, 2007.

Vanderzalm, J., Dillon, P., Marvanek, S. and Page, D. (2007) Over 100 years of drinking stormwater treated through MAR, ISMAR6: The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 28 – November 2, 2007.

Page, D., Chassagne, A., Barry, K., Wakelin, S., Gregg, A., Pavelic, P. and Dillon, P. (2007) Biofiltration as a pre-treatment to reduce well bioclogging, ISMAR6: The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 28 – November 2, 2007.

Dillon, P., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Vanderzalm, J., Page, D., Bekele E. and Sidhu, J. (2007) Urban groundwater recharge enhancement and water recycling, Sino-German Workshop, Beijing, China, October 2007.

Dillon, P., Pavelic, P., Toze, S., Vanderzalm, J., Page, D., Bekele, E. and Sidhu, J. (2007), Urban groundwater recharge and water recycling, Bringing Water Recycling into the Mainstream, 1-2nd February, Wollongong, Australia.

Cook, S., Vanderzalm, J., Burn, S., Dillon, P., Page. D. (2006): A karstic aquifer system: Mount Gambier, Australia. In Urban Water Re-sources Toolbox - Integrating groundwater into urban water management (eds L. Wolf, B. Morris, S. Burn). IWA, London.

Sanderson, A., Boggs, G. and Page, D. (2006) A GIS Based Catchment Risk Assessment for the Katherine Potable Water Supply, 13th Australasian Hydrographic Conference (Interactive Hydrography - Future Directions), 29th Aug – 1st Sept, Darwin, Australia.

Regel, R., Rinck-Pfeiffer, S., Dillon, P., Pavelic, P., Page, D., Purdie M., Pitman C. and Gerges, N. (2006) The groundbreaking ASTR project – turning stormwater into water of a potable quality, Australian Water Association SA Regional Conference, 21st July, Victor Harbour, Australia.

D. Page, S. Wakelin, J. van Leeuwen and P. Dillon (2006) Review of biofiltration processes relevant to water reclamation via aquifers, CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 47/06.

Rinck-Pfeiffer, S., Regel, R., Dillon, P., Pavelic, P., Purdie, M., Pitman, C. and Page, D. (2006) Turning stormwater into drinking water via ASTR in an urban aquifer, Enviro 06, 9 – 11 May, Melbourne, Australia, CD-ROM.

Page, D., Dillon, P., Purdie, M. and Rinck-Pfeiffer, S. (2006) A risk management method for stormwater reuse, 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling and the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design, 2-7 April, Melbourne, Australia, CD-ROM.

Lin, E., Hutson, J., Le Gal La Salle, C., Dillon, P., Page, D. and Pavelic, P. (2006) Assessment of roughing filtration for pre-treatment of urban wetland waters, in Recent Progress in Slow sand and Alternative Biofiltration Processes, Gimbel, R., Graham, N.J.D. and Collins, M.R. (Eds), IWA Publishing, London UK, ISBN: 9781843391203.

Lin, E., Page, D., Pavelic, P., Dillon, P., McClure, S. and Hutson, J. (2006) Evaluation of Roughing Filtration for Pre-Treatment of Stormwater prior to Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 03/06.

Swierc, J., Page, D., van Leeuwen, J. and Dillon, P. (2005) Preliminary Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points Plan (HACCP) - Salisbury Stormwater to Drinking Water Aquifer Storage Transfer and Recovery (ASTR) Project, CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report No. 20/05.

Page, D. Heaton, P. Day, D. and Boggs, G. (2004) A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) risk management approach to drinking water protection in Northern Australia, IWA World Water Congress, 19-24 September 2004, Marrakech, Morocco, CD-ROM.

Hariram, P, Heaton, P., Day, D. and Page, D. (2004) Perceptions on the implementation of HACCP to a rural water supply, Enviro 04, 28 March - 1 April 2004, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, CD-ROM.

Pidsley, D., Heaton, P., Day, D. and Page, D. (2004) Soil aquifer treatment (SAT) and aquifer storage in Alice Springs, Enviro 04, 28 March - 1 April 2004, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, CD-ROM.

Clarkson, K., Heaton, P., Day, D. and Page, D. (2004) Risk Management of health related parameters in groundwater, Enviro 04, 28 March - 1 April 2004, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, CD-ROM.

van Leeuwen, J., Page, D. Spark, K. Fabris R. and Sledz. L. (2004) Pyrolysis and thermochemolysis products from organics recalcitrant to removal by alum, in two drinking waters, Natural Organic Material Research: Innovations and Applications for Drinking Water, March 2 -5 2004, Victor Harbour, South Australia, Australia, CD-ROM.

van Leeuwen, J., Spark, K. and Page D. (2004) Characterisation of Organic Matter isolated from the Mount Bold Catchment, South Australia, using pyrolysis-GC/MS and thermochemolysis, Organic matter: interfaces and interactions, combined national conference of the Australian Organic Geochemists and the International Humic Substances Society, 16 - 19 February 2004, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, CD-ROM.

Goonrey, C., Hose, G., Page, D., Pelekani, C. and Wilkes, J. (2003) Allocation of communally owned resources, Proceedings of the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering symposium: Water the Australian dilemma, Melbourne, Australia.

Olley, J and Page, D. (2003) Organic matter sources, in Targeting rectification action in the Wingecarribee catchment, Editor: Olley, J. and Deere, D., CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 47/03, September 2003.

Hanigan, I., Whiteway, T., Balzer, I., Wade, A. and Page, D. (2003), Identifying potential “hotspots” for pathogens in the Googong Catchment, AWA 20th Convention, 6-10 April, Perth, Western Australia, CD-ROM.

Wade, A., Whiteway, T. and Page, D.W. (2003), Ecosystem Services in the Cotter Catchment, AWA 20th Convention, 6-10 April, Perth, Western Australia, CD-ROM.

Wade, A., Whiteway, T. and Page, D.W. (2003), The Canberra water supply catchment project, AWA 20th Convention, 6-10 April, Perth, Western Australia, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., Hanigan, I., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., and Mulcahy, D.E. (2003), Assessment of the treatability of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from terrestrial and freshwater sources, with alum, AWA 20th Convention, 6-10 April, Perth, Western Australia, CD-ROM.

Wade, A. and Page, D. (2002), The Canberra water supply project, ActewAGL Water Distribution internal report.

van Leeuwen, J.A., Page, D.W. and Spark K.M. (2002) The characterisation of natural organic matter, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, internal report.

van Leeuwen, J., Chow, C., Fabris, R., Withers, N., Page, D. and Drikas, M. (2002), Application of a fractionation technique for the better understanding of the removal of NOM by alum coagulation, IWA World Water Congress Eviro2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April 2002, CD-ROM.

Whiteway, T., Page, D.W. and Wasson, R. (2002), Materials budgets as a tool for integrated catchment management, IWA World Water Congress Eviro2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April 2002, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., Huett, D. and Wade, A. (2002), Base flow and groundwater investigation of Burra Valley and implications for runoff water quality, IWA World Water Congress Eviro2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April 2002, CD-ROM.

Page, D., Benjamin, R., Olley, J., Wallbrink, P., Wasson, R., Croke, B., Wade, A., Ferguson, C., and Deere, D. (2002), Tracing and Tracking of water pollution: A practical guide, IWA World Water Congress Eviro2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April 2002, CD-ROM.

Wasson, R., Croke, B., Jakeman, A., Page, D., Ashbolt, N., Burch, M. and Wade, A. (2001) Catchment conceptual model, Report prepared for the Sydney Catchment Authority.

Page, D. and Wade, A. (2001) A Blueprint for Watershed Catchment Research, a trifecta of Process, Scale and Change, Report prepared for the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, Catchment planning forum.

Page, D., Wasson, R., Ashbolt, N., Croke, B., Merrit, W., Olley, J. and Jakeman, A. (2001) Sydney Catchment Authority: Catchment Analysis Toolkit, Report prepared for the Sydney Catchment Authority, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., Starr, B. and Wade, A. (2001), Interim report on base flow and groundwater investigation of Burra Valley and Implications for Runoff Water Quality, Report prepared for ActewAGL Distribution.

Deere, D., Page, D., Wasson, R., Starr, B., Ashbolt, N., Leeming, R., Croke, B. and Wade, A. (2001), Tracing and Tracking of water pollution: A practical guide, Water Quality and Technology Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, November 2001, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., and Mulcahy, D.E. (2001), Reservoir catchments and the influence on terrestrially-derived dissolved organic matter, Australian Water Association 19th Federal Convention, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, April 2001, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., Mulcahy, D.E. (2000), Effect of alum treatment on the trihalomethane formation potential of reservoir waters and allochthonous “synthetic waters”, Environmental Engineering Research Event 2000, Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia, November, 2000, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M. and Mulcahy, D.E. (2000), Coagulating allochthonous dissolved organic matter, Proceedings of the 10th meeting of the International Humic Substances Society, July, Toulouse, France, 859 - 862.

Page, D.W., (2000), Effect of alum treatment on the bacterial regrowth potential of reservoir waters and allochthonous “synthetic waters”, CRC for Water Quality and Treatment 2nd Conference, April, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, 2000.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M. and Mulcahy, D.E. (2000), Investigation of allochthonous dissolved organic matter using thermochemolysis, Humic Substances Science and Commercial Applications: Australian Chapter of the International Humic Substances Society, February, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2000.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M., (1999), Allochthonous dissolved organic matter (DOM) in water treatment, Environmental Engineering Research Event '99, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, November, 1999, CD-ROM.

Page, D.W., Spark, K.M., van Leeuwen, J.A. and Mulcahy, D.E. (1998), Diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared (DRIFT) spectra of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and related substances in reservoir waters and catchments, Environmental Engineering Research Event '98, Avoca Beach, New South Wales, Australia, December, 1998.

Page, D.W., van Leeuwen, J.A., Spark, K.M. and Mulcahy, D.E. (1998), Comparison of degradative techniques for the determination of water soluble lignin derived methoxy phenols in a reservoir catchment, Proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Humic Substances Society, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 415-420.

Page, D.W., (1998), Characterisation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from selected South Australian reservoirs, CRC for Water Quality and Treatment 1st Conference, Warburton, Victoria, Australia, June, 1998.

Page, D.W. and Spark, K.M. (1998), Pyrolysis-gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer analysis of water soluble soil organic matter (SSOM), National Australian Soil Science Society Incorporated Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, April, 1998.