- Author : Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Toxic Substances Committee. Task Force on Chemical Loadings
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- Release : 1988
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- Pages : 298 pages
Report on Modeling the Loading concentration Relationship for Critical Pollutants in the Great Lakes
Download or read book Report on Modeling the Loading concentration Relationship for Critical Pollutants in the Great Lakes written by Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Toxic Substances Committee. Task Force on Chemical Loadings and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploratory applications of mass balance modeling of PCB's in Lake Ontario. It is widely accepted that environmental fate models, in the form of mass balances or budgets, can play a useful role in managing the issue of the presence of toxic organic chemicals in the Great Lakes. Under the aegis of the IJC, three independant modelling efforts were produced in order to determine if the models gave similar, useful and understandable results. These groups developed different models of the fate of the PCB's in the water column, sediment and biota of Lake Ontario and projected the response of the lake to specified changes in PCB loading. These reports, reproduced in extenso in this volume, were evaluated during a workshop held in 1987 by scientists who also addressed their application and management implications. The Task Force of the IJC presents its views, conclusions and recommendations.