Heavy Metals in Wastewater and Treatment Plant Effluents

The findings of the Interstate Sanitary Commission's (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) routine heavy metals analyses of municipal wastewater treatment plants is presented. The results show that many plants receive and discharge heavy metals above prudent limits. In order to minimize the h...

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Published in:Journal - Water Pollution Control Federation 1973-09, Vol.45 (9), p.1859-1864
Main Authors: Mytelka, Alan I., Czachor, Joseph S., Guggino, William B., Golub, Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arithmetic mean
Connecticut
Cumulativity
Frequency distribution
Heavy metals
Industrial effluents
Industrial plants
Metals - analysis
New Jersey
New York
Pulp and paper mill effluents
Sewage - analysis
Spectrophotometry, Atomic
Wastewater
Wastewater treatment
Water Pollution - prevention & control
Zinc
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Summary:The findings of the Interstate Sanitary Commission's (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) routine heavy metals analyses of municipal wastewater treatment plants is presented. The results show that many plants receive and discharge heavy metals above prudent limits. In order to minimize the harmful effects of these heavy metals, state-of-the-art techniques must be implemented to achieve as close to 100 percent removal as is possible before these metals enter the sewer system. This is especially important in areas where combined sewer systems allow wastewater to by-pass treatment plants and discharge, untreated, directly into the receiving waterways.
ISSN:0043-1303