Water effluent limitations guidelines

NYSDEC (1998) Ambient water quality standards and guideline values and ground-water effluent limitations. Division of Water Technical and Operational Guideline Series (1.1.1). New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany... 

EPA. 1993a. Development document for proposed effluent limitation guidelines and standards for the pulp, paper and paperboard point source category. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washinton, DC. EPA-821-R-93-019. 

Clean Water Act (CWA 33 U.S. Code 1251 et seq.). Under the CWA, the U.S. EPA establishes water quality criteria used to develop water quality standards, technology-based effluent limitation guidelines, and pretreatment standards... 

US EPA, Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Aluminum forming Point Source Category, EPA-440/1-80/070-a, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water and Waste Management, Washington, DC, 1980. 

USEPA, Development Document for Effluent Limitations. Guidelines and Standards for the Non-ferrous Metals Manufacturing Point Source Category Volume IV, EPA 440/1-89-019-1. Office of Water Regulations and Standards. Industrial Technology Division, May 1989. 

Priority pollutants. Priority pollutants refers to a list of 126 specific pollutants, which include heavy metals and specific organic chemicals. The priority pollutants are a subset of toxic pollutants as defined in the Clean Water Act (United States). These 126 pollutants were assigned a high priority for development of water quality criteria and effluent limitation guidelines because they are frequently found in wastewater. Many of the heavy metals, pesticides, and other chemicals listed below are on the priority pollutant list. °... 

Clean Water Act Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA is required to adhere to a strict schedule in promulgating regulations for a large list of priority pollutants in water. Strict performance standards, pretreatment standards and effluent limitation guidelines now exist to control the discharge of pollutants into municipal sewers or publicly owned water treatment works (POTWs), into rivers, lakes, oceans and other bodies of water. 

Mirex is regulated by the Clean Water Effluent Guidelines as stated in Title 40, Sections 400-475, of the Code of Federal Regulations. Mirex has a specific effluent limitation for the pesticide chemicals point source category (EPA 1978f). No effluent guidelines exist for chlordecone. 

Three categories of regulatory limitations apply to wastewater discharge from industrial facilities such as oilfields and petroleum refineries [20]. The first category includes effluent limitations, which are designed to control those industry-specific wastewater constituents deemed significant from the standpoints of water quality impact and treatability in conventional treatment systems. In the United States, these limitations are the EPA Effluent Guidelines, issued under Public Law 92-500. 

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