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Book Biological Monitoring of Water and Effluent Quality

Download or read book Biological Monitoring of Water and Effluent Quality written by John Cairns and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1976 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biological Monitoring of water and effluent quality

Download or read book Biological Monitoring of water and effluent quality written by J CAIRNS (JR, Ed) and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1976 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecotoxicity and Human Health

Download or read book Ecotoxicity and Human Health written by Arthur D. Bloom and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-10-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecotoxicity and Human Health emphasizes the relationships between toxicity, ecological systems, and human health. It focuses on the extent and nature of hazardous waste sites and how their effects may be studied in humans and other systems, using in vitro models, biomarkers of cellular and molecular damage, and animal models. It also includes considerable information on bioremediation, legal and regulatory issues, public perceptions and societal responses, quantitative modeling and analysis, and international directives. One of the unique features of Ecotoxicity and Human Health is its coverage of the legislative actions that have occurred over the past two decades and which have most affected the issue of hazardous waste. The book discusses the Superfund Statute, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Ocean Dumping Act of 1972, the Rio Conference, United Nations Declarations, EC Regulations and Directives, and selected state legislation.

Book Methods for Biological Monitoring

Download or read book Methods for Biological Monitoring written by Theodore Joseph Kneip and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual provides methods of biological monitoring for laboratories engaged in the analysis of samples of human origin. Although the methods were developed primarily to assess toxic exposures in the workplace, they may be used in situations of suspected contamination, fugitive emissions or other potential human encounters with hazardous materials.

Book ORD Publications Announcement

Download or read book ORD Publications Announcement written by Center for Environmental Research Information (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biological monitoring

Download or read book Biological monitoring written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infectious Waste Management

Download or read book Infectious Waste Management written by Michael Garvin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday, thousands of hospitals around the country produce thousands of tons of infectious waste. The disposal of this waste is considered one of America's primary environmental problems. Drawing on the author's 20 years of experience as an administrator, department director, and staff consultant, Infectious Waste Management offers an insider's approach to medical waste management. This reference includes information on how to manage medical waste practically. It gives simple, effective procedures on how to a establish or revitalize a waste management program. Written in a friendly, understandable style, the book covers everything from working with administration to provide necessary resources to getting employees to work effectively. It describes cost-containing guidelines and establishing regulatory compliance. This invaluable guide discusses proper department procedures and methods to monitor systems. The book contains "education modules" or short education tools which can be used to convey important task-oriented information to staff. The book is divided into three sections according to the intended audience. Text in the first section is directed toward hospital administrators and members of the infection control and safety committees. The second is primarily for department directors and focuses on writing infectious waste management procedures for the departments of environmental services and maintenance. This section also addresses the essential functions of program monitoring and waste tracking or manifesting. The third part is for people responsible for educating staff. Together, these sections present an effective, full-staff approach to infectious waste management. The book has a number of appendices, which restate important points made throughout the book and provide sample policies, procedures, letters, memos, reference cards, and other management or education tools that will prove helpful.

Book Hazardous Waste Sites

Download or read book Hazardous Waste Sites written by Michael R. Greenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities. A lack of credibility, argue the authors, is a formidable, if not the biggest, obstacle to properly managing hazardous waste in the United States. Nowhere is the credibility gap wider than where there are hazardous waste management facilities or where sites have been proposed.The purpose of this book is to provide comprehensive perspectives on hazardous waste sites in the United States. The sources of hazardous waste are described along with the scientific and legal climates that allowed wastes to be discarded with little attention to impacts. Evidence is weighed for and against public health, as well as environmental, economic, and social damages at abandoned sites. Political processes and analytical techniques are suggested and illustrated for those who are involved in the siting of new facilities. A strategy for hazardous waste management is offered, together with approaches to substantially reduce the difficulties faced by local planners and site managers who face a hostile public.A historical legacy of mismanagement, fueled by exaggeration of impacts and by a lack of information, characterizes hazardous waste management in the United States. This book will be important to planners, environmental scientists, and public health officials. In order to assure accessibility for the casual reader, the authors keep the explanation of mathematical methods and technologies in this area to a minimum.

Book Evaluation of Biomonitoring Systems for Assessment of Contaminated Water and Sediments at U S Army Installations Continuous Acute Toxicity Biomonitoring of Aberdeen Proving Ground Edgewood Area Old O Field Groundwater Treatment Facility Effluent

Download or read book Evaluation of Biomonitoring Systems for Assessment of Contaminated Water and Sediments at U S Army Installations Continuous Acute Toxicity Biomonitoring of Aberdeen Proving Ground Edgewood Area Old O Field Groundwater Treatment Facility Effluent written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old 0-Field is a hazardous waste disposal site at the Aberdeen Proving Ground-Edgewood Area, Aberdeen, Maryland, which has contaminated the underlying groundwater. The contaminated groundwater is collected and treated at the Old 0-Field Groundwater Treatment Facility (GwTF) with subsequent discharge to the Gunpowder River. An in-line automated fish ventilatory biomonitoring system was installed at the GWTF to monitor the effluent for unexpected toxicity as it is discharged. A number of out of control events (stressed fish) occurred during the study (June 23, 1995 to March 31, 1996). The total number of days the system obtained out of control responses was 21.0 d. Explanations for the out of control responses were available for 20.6 d. No obvious explanations were apparent for 0.5 d. The out of control responses occurred from (1) changes in effluent water quality; (2) power failures; or (3) a proportional diluter failure. Changes in effluent water quality accounted for 89.2% of the total out of control responses with explanation. Loss of power and a diluter malfunction accounted for 5.9% and 4.9% of the out of control responses with explanation, respectively. Out of control responses with no explanation occurred 0.2% of the time or 0.5 d during the study. No acute toxicity attributable to the GWTF effluent quality occurred during the study.

Book The Federal Technology Transfer Act

Download or read book The Federal Technology Transfer Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Monitoring and Biodiagnostics of Hazardous Contaminants

Download or read book Environmental Monitoring and Biodiagnostics of Hazardous Contaminants written by M. Healy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years public awareness of the long term toxic affects heavy metal ions in waters and wastewaters has increased significantly. Environmental agencies have been imposing more and more stringent discharge limits on industries involved in processes using metal ions. Numerous industries produce aqueous effluents con taining metal ions and particularly copper and cadmium. Copper sulfate is used on a large scale in the electroplating industries. In addition, copper salts are used as fungicides, timber preservatives, insecticides, paint corrosion inhibitors and in dyestuffs. Cadmium is used in the manufacture of nickel-cadmium batteries, as a corrosion inhibitor and control rods in the nuclear industry. The European Com munity has listed cadmium as one of the most dangerous metal due to its toxicity, persistence and bioaccumulation in List 1 of its Directive 76/464/EEC. Therefore, it is important that methods for the removal of these metal ions are found and that the mechanism of removal is characterized and understood. A number of adsorb ents have been identified which are capable of removing copper (Panday et aI. , 1985; Ho et aI. , 1996; Low and Lee, 1987; Low et aI. , 1993; Quek et aI. , 1998) and cadmium (Battacharya and Venkobachar, 1984; Namasivayam and Ranganathan, 1995; Periasamy and Namasivayam, 1994) from aqueous solutions. Sorption kin etic models have been proposed for some systems.

Book Sampling and Monitoring

Download or read book Sampling and Monitoring written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: