Organic priority pollutants in wastewater
Prior to June 1978, a collection of environmentally concerned groups brought suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to implement portions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). The court decision, which has commonly become known as the EPA Consent Decree, required the EPA to publish a list of toxic pollutants to be controlled, discharge limitations for those compounds in water effluents, and methods for quantating those compounds. Of the 129 compounds since designated as priority pollutants by the EPA, 114 are organic compounds. The gas chromatography/mass spectrometry methods of analysis, as proposed by the EPA (methods 624 and 625), have been applied to wastewater from the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (ORGDP). All toxic pollutants identified in the ORGDP wastewater are from the volatile fraction. The concentrations of these organic pollutants range from <10 ppB to approx. 2 ppM.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5407912
- Report Number(s):
- K/TL/AT-98; CONF-820418-8; ON: DE82008326
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AROMATICS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
CONTROL
ETHERS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS
LIQUID WASTES
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
MATERIALS
MONITORING
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGDP
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PESTICIDES
PHENOLS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
QUALITY CONTROL
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPECTROSCOPY
TOXIC MATERIALS
TRACE AMOUNTS
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTE WATER
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL