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Title: Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report

Abstract

The US Department of Energy (USDOE) has a program of research in the environmental aspects of oil and gas extraction. This sampling project will characterize the environmental impacts associated with the discharge of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), metals and organics in produced water. This report is part of a series of studies of the health and ecological risks from discharges of produced water to the Gulf of Mexico, supported by the USDOE. These assessments are being coordinated with the field study, using the collected data to perform human health and ecological risk assessments. These assessments will provide input to regulators in the development of guidelines and permits, and to industry in the development and use of appropriate discharge practices. The initial human health and ecological risk assessments consist of conservative screening analyses meant to identify potentially important contaminants, and to eliminate others from further consideration. More quantitative assessments were done for contaminants identified, in the screening analysis, as being of potential concern. Section 2 gives an overview of human health and ecological risk assessment to help put the analyses presented here in perspective. Section 3 provides the hazard assessment portion of the risk assessment, and identifies the important receptorsmore » and pathways of concern. Section 3 also outlines the approach taken to the risk assessments presented in the rest of the report. The remaining sections (4 through 9) present the human health and ecological risk assessments for discharges of produced water to open bays in Louisiana.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
225971
Report Number(s):
BNL-62975
ON: DE96009363; TRN: AHC29610%%13
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 22 Mar 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 03 NATURAL GAS; 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY; HEALTH HAZARDS; PROGRESS REPORT; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; WASTE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; COASTAL WATERS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; LEAD; MERCURY; CADMIUM; PHENOLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RADIUM 226; RADIUM 228; LEAD 210; POLONIUM 210; THORIUM 228; RADIUM 222; FISHES; FOOD CHAINS; COMPILED DATA

Citation Formats

Meinhold, A F, DePhillips, M P, and Holtzman, S. Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.2172/225971.
Meinhold, A F, DePhillips, M P, & Holtzman, S. Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/225971
Meinhold, A F, DePhillips, M P, and Holtzman, S. 1996. "Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/225971. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/225971.
@article{osti_225971,
title = {Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report},
author = {Meinhold, A F and DePhillips, M P and Holtzman, S},
abstractNote = {The US Department of Energy (USDOE) has a program of research in the environmental aspects of oil and gas extraction. This sampling project will characterize the environmental impacts associated with the discharge of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), metals and organics in produced water. This report is part of a series of studies of the health and ecological risks from discharges of produced water to the Gulf of Mexico, supported by the USDOE. These assessments are being coordinated with the field study, using the collected data to perform human health and ecological risk assessments. These assessments will provide input to regulators in the development of guidelines and permits, and to industry in the development and use of appropriate discharge practices. The initial human health and ecological risk assessments consist of conservative screening analyses meant to identify potentially important contaminants, and to eliminate others from further consideration. More quantitative assessments were done for contaminants identified, in the screening analysis, as being of potential concern. Section 2 gives an overview of human health and ecological risk assessment to help put the analyses presented here in perspective. Section 3 provides the hazard assessment portion of the risk assessment, and identifies the important receptors and pathways of concern. Section 3 also outlines the approach taken to the risk assessments presented in the rest of the report. The remaining sections (4 through 9) present the human health and ecological risk assessments for discharges of produced water to open bays in Louisiana.},
doi = {10.2172/225971},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/225971}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 22 00:00:00 EST 1996},
month = {Fri Mar 22 00:00:00 EST 1996}
}