Risk assessment for produced water discharges to Louisiana open bays. Final report
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.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 225971
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-62975; ON: DE96009363; TRN: AHC29610%%13
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 22 Mar 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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HEALTH HAZARDS
PROGRESS REPORT
NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY
WASTE WATER
RISK ASSESSMENT
COASTAL WATERS
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
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CADMIUM
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RADIUM 226
RADIUM 228
LEAD 210
POLONIUM 210
THORIUM 228
RADIUM 222
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