receiving waters

water bodies into which waste is emptied from treatment plants.

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From 2013 to 2017, the project team completed eight strategically chosen stormwater projects to decrease the transport of microbes to receiving waters by reducing the volume of surface runoff.

Georgia : North Carolinas Collaborative Project Team Awarded 2017 EPA Region 4 Rain Catcher Award

Effluent limitations serve as the primary mechanism in NPDES permits for controlling effluent discharge to receiving waters. The coal industry is facing more stringent water quality based effluent limits.

Larson adds permitting expertise

Although these rivers only flood occasionally, the lakes and receiving waters are key breeding sites for waterbirds, including pelicans.

Call to protect iconic outback watercourse

The contributors do not wax fantastic onus but have solid, practical ideas about urban water sustainability (with material on infrastructure and case studies), the impact of extreme events (with hurricane realities and the importance of the integrity of the water system at such times), monitoring and total mass balance of pollution (including ecosystem approaches to reducing pollutants and field data for drainage systems), hydrologic and pollution stresses and the response of receiving waters (including urban ground water systems and effluent dominates water bodies), solutions that integrate water and landscape (with storm water and wastewater solutions) and implementing future urban hydrological and ecological systems.

Cities of the future; towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management

In all four cases, the Commission considers that where the capacity of existing facilities to deal with flows of urban waste water is exceeded, overflow systems are used, resulting in substantial amounts of untreated waste water being discharged into the receiving waters (rivers or the sea) on a regular basis, causing pollution and representing a threat to health and the environment.

WASTE WATER : BRUSSELS PULLS THE PLUG ON UK FOR BREACH OF WASTE WATER DIRECTIVE

Application: Adding DTPA to the digester could reduce manganese (Mn) in effluents to receiving waters.

Reduction of manganese in brownstock--laboratory study and mill trial results

Theorists projected that if this soil arrives at the right time in summer, the resulting iron enrichment of receiving waters should fertilize the growth of blue-green algae known as Trichodesmium.

Rain of foreign dust fuels red tides

those constituents that do, in fact, impair the designated beneficial uses of the receiving waters for a particular discharge on a site-specific basis.

Chemical constituents vs. water quality

The services sought include wet and dry-weather sampling at major outfalls, receiving waters, and TMDL compliance monitoring sites at specified frequencies and locations, coordination of laboratory analysis of the water sample for the constituents described at a State certified analytical laboratory, data analysis, report writing capabilities, and report submission according to the attached Scope of Work.

North Santa Monica Bay Coastal Watersheds Monitoring Services

Several of the papers[2] in the conference proceedings discuss the significant deficiencies in current stormwater runoff monitoring relative to providing reliable information that can evaluate the impact of chemical constituents and pathogenic organism indicators on the beneficial uses of the receiving waters for the runoff, that serve as a reliable basis for developing stormwater runoff water quality management BMPs, and that can determine the adequacy of a BMP in addressing real water quality issues associated with stormwater runoff.

Chemical constituents vs. water quality

Assess the chemical, physical, and biological impacts of discharges from the MS4 on receiving waters. 2.

Watershed Monitoring Program

A critical review of the nature of the structural BMPs indicates that many of them produce little or no improvement in the designated beneficial uses of the receiving waters.

Stormwater runoff management: are real water quality problems being addressed by current structural best management practices?