Water quality criteria

In the United States, the EPA pubUshes recommended national water quality effluent discharge criteria for the protection of aquatic life and human health, and is authorized to enforce compliance against these criteria under the Clean Water Act. States can elect to develop their own state-specific water quality criteria that are equal to, or more restrictive than, the EPA values. If a state elects not to institute its own state-specific standards then the EPA will promulgate standards for the state. The EPA s recommended water quality criteria are based on the highest concentration of a pollutant that is not expected to pose a significant risk to the majority of species in a given environment, and cover approximately 150 pollutants (EPA, 2014). The EPA criteria address total solids, aluminum, and copper, but do not specifically address alumina, ceria, or silica particles. 

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Ambient Water Quality Criteria forMercury—19S4, EPA-440/5-84-026 (NTIS No. PB85-227452), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1985. 

Table 3. Coastal Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Substances Other Than Biocides ...

In many cases, the quality of a stream or another water source can be adequately improved by removing more BOD or suspended solids. In other iastances, the effluent is prepared for groundwater recharge which may require only the removal of nutrient. A classification of wastewater treatment processes is given ia Table 3. Table 4 summarizes water quality criteria for various iadustrial uses (10). 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Chromium, EPA 440/5-80-35, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1980 Fed. Reg. (FR), cited as Volume FR Number 56 FR3526 56 FR 30266. 

Despite EPA s urging and guidance, state response was disappointing. A few states adopted large numbers of numeric toxic pohutant criteria, primarily for the protection of aquatic life. Most other states adopted few or no water-quality criteria for priority toxic pohutants. Some rehed on free from toxicity criteria and so-called acLion levels for toxic pollutants or occasionally calculated site-specific criteria. Few states addressed the protection of human health by adopting numeric human health criteria. 

Water Quality Criteria, Resources Agency of California, State Water Quality Control Board, 2nd edn. (1963)... 

Water Quality Criteria, American Society for Testing and Materials, S.T.P. No. 416 (1967)... 

These results underline the necessity of establishing regional water quality criteria when planning the use of saline water sources for irrigation. These criteria are of primary importance for establishing suitable strategies for the safe use of saline aquifers in Syria and other arid and semi-arid regions. 

EPA. 1986f. Ambient water quality criteria for Parathion - 1986. Washington, DC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Criteria and Standards Division. EPA440/5-86-007. 

ERA Ambient water quality criteria for protection of human health for alpha-, beta-endosulfan and endosulfan sulfate water and organisms organisms only 110 pg/L 240 pg/L EPA 1999c... 

NAS. 1972. Water quality criteria 1972, A report of the committee on water quality criteria. Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. 

Finn, R.N. (2007). The physiology and toxicology of sahnonid eggs and larvae in relation to water quality criteria. Aquatic Toxicology 81, 337-354. 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Protection of Human Health" Ingesting water and organisms EPA 1991... 

EPA. 1980a. Ambient Water Quality Criteria Document for Trichloroethylene. Prepared by the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, Cincinnati, OH for the Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Washington, DC. NTIS No. PB81-117871. 

EPA. 199L Water quality criteria summary. Washington, DC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

SDSI is being developed to recognize companies, facilities, and others who voluntarily phase out or commit to phasing out the manufacture or use of NPE surfactants. NPEs are used in detergents in cleaning and other products. Both NPEs and their breakdown products, such as nonylphenol, can harm aquatic life. The Safer Detergents Initiative complements EPA s Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Nonylphenol which are designed to protect aquatic hfe in both fresh and saltwater and can form the basis for state and tribal water quahty standards. 

Section 307 of the CWA defines a fist of 126 priority pollutants for which the US EPA must establish ambient water-quality criteria and effluent limitations. 

Identieication oe Indicators through Development OE Water Quality Criteria eor Wildliee... 

Reevaluation of the State of the Science for Water-Quality Criteria Development Reiley, Stubblefield, Adams, Di Toro, Erickson, Hodson, Keating Jr, editors 2003... 

The risk methodology recommended for the water quality criteria involves either qualitative or quantitative estimates of concentrations of a pollutant in ambient waters which, when not exceeded, will "ensure a water quality sufficient to protect a specified water use." Criteria are intended for both the protection of human health and of ecosystems however, they do not carry the authority of law. 

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