Conference proceeding
Field Validation of Water Quality Criteria for Hydrophobic Pollutants
Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment, pp.302-315
Annual Symposium on Aquatic Toxicology, 5th (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10/07/1980–10/08/1980)
1982
DOI: 10.1520/STP36727S
Abstract
A comparison of laboratory and field bioconcentration factors (BCFs) is made for a variety of hydrophobic pollutants, including dieldrin, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), chlordane, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), and heptachlor epoxide. The bioconcentration factors calculated from field data in Iowa rivers, the Coralville Reservoir in Iowa, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior are within a factor of 1 to 4 of laboratory-derived bioconcentration factors in the fat of fish. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's water quality criteria are also within a factor of 1 to 4 of estimated field concentrations which would result in a maximum permissible tissue concentration (MPTC). Field bioconcentration factors normalized on a fat or oil basis correlate with the octanol-water partition coefficient of 13 hydrophobic pollutants.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Field Validation of Water Quality Criteria for Hydrophobic Pollutants
- Creators
- J L Schnoor
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment, pp.302-315
- Conference
- Annual Symposium on Aquatic Toxicology, 5th (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10/07/1980–10/08/1980)
- DOI
- 10.1520/STP36727S
- Publisher
- ASTM International; West Conshohocken, PA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1982
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9983997422602771
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