Rivers Pollution Commission

Industrial pollution was fought in local battles between the manufacturers and the landowners and urban communities affected, but it was not firmly placed on the national agenda in Britain until the 1860s. The first public investigation into industrial air pollution (as distinct from smoke pollution) was carried out in 1862. River pollution was the subject of an influential petition to parliament in 1864 and public concern with the spread of this enormous evil was met by a series of Royal Commission inquiries into river pollution between 1865 and... 

Pollution of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the International Section of the St. Lawrence River, Report to the International Joint Commission by the international Lake Erie and Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence Water Pollution Boards, IntematitKial Joint Commission, Windsor, Ontario, 1969, Vols. 1,2 and 3. 

European eco-labeling of paper products, and in the existing European eco-labeling for cleaners under Regulation 1980/2000/EC. In addition, the EU Commission made further recommendations on risk reduction measures for EDTA. First, it asked EU Member States to establish Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) for EDTA, and the national pollution reduction measures to achieve those EQS in 2015 should be included in the river basin management plans in line with the provisions of Directive 2000/60/EC. Second, EU Member States should specify in IPPC permits measures on EDTA to operate to BAT by October 2007, taking into account local circumstances. Further, as BAT is developed, this should be incorporated into the permits. 

Furthermore, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine against Pollution recently drew up a list of dangerous substances for that watercourse. The Services of the Commission participated in this work and was thus able to note specific information and data on certain substances of more particular interest to the ripairian countries of that river. 

Within the framework of the 4th Pollution Load Compilation (PLC-4) of Baltic Sea monitoring, the clarification of oil inputs to the Baltic Sea via rivers is one of the priority issues according to Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) recommendations [1], Hence, the determination of hydrocarbons in some larger rivers and point sources is mandatory in PLC-4. Gas chromatographic (GC) determination of hydrocarbons after solvent extraction was chosen as the analytical procedure [2], The method enables the determination of hydrocarbons at concentrations above 0.1 mg L and encompasses a... 

Joint Air Pollution Study of St. Clair-Detroit River Areas for International Joint Commission, Canada and the United States. International Joint Commission, Ottawa and Washington, DC, 1971. 

The removal of impurities from effluents is a specialized subject and only a brief survey is justified in the present context. The permissible degree of pollution acceptable for discharge into either sewers or rivers varies from one locality to another. As a guide the old Royal Commission standard specified a maximum of 30 ppm of suspended matter and 20 ppm of B.O.D. It may well be that river authorities will require higher standards than this such as, for example, 20 ppm of suspended solids and 15 ppm of B.O.D. 

Among Asian rivers, the Yellow River (China), Ganges (India), Amu and Syr Darya (Central Asia) top the list of the World s most polluted rivers according to a report of the World Commission on Water (The Independent, 1999). Selected cases of water pollution for different rivers are highlighted in Figure 8. 

Letter to First Lord of the Treasury from the President of the Sanitary Association and Vice-President of the Fisheries Protection Association relating to the pollution of streams, in PP. 1864, L. 327. The Royal Commission to Inquire into the Best Means of Preventing Pollution of Rivers published eight separate reports in the British Parliamentary Papers between 1866 and 1874. 

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