Site specific metals criteria as determined by Water Effect Ratio studies
- Commercial Testing and Engineering Co., Denver, CO (United States)
Water Effect Ratios (WER) are being used to implement site-specific water quality criteria to address the variability of physical and chemical characteristics of site water and metals that may influence toxicity. A case in point, Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado, has been granted site-specific criteria for the discharge of copper and zinc based on results of WER studies. Acute bioassays were conducted to determine seasonal WER values for copper, zinc and silver. The tests exposed Ceriodaphnia dubia and Pimephales promelas to graduated levels of metals in Clear Creek site water (below discharge mixing zone), reconstituted laboratory water and effluent. Final WER values, calculated by the ratio of LC50`s determined in site water and laboratory water, were multiplied by the standard metals criteria to develop the site specific values incorporated into the Coors Brewing Company permit to discharge. It is suggested that the high LC50 values for metals in site water is a factor of the effluent`s binding capacity that may reduce the bioavailability of metals in site water.
- OSTI ID:
- 37446
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9410273-; TRN: IM9519%%370
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15. annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Denver, CO (United States), 30 Oct - 3 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 15th annual meeting: Abstract book. Ecological risk: Science, policy, law, and perception; PB: 286 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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