Performance of sewage treatment plants and impact of effluent discharge on receiving water quality within an urbanized area

Dantas, Marina Salim; Barroso, Gabriela Rodrigues; Oliveira, Sílvia Corrêa

doi:10.1007/s10661-021-09075-1

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“…Most WWTPs in developed countries use different treatment facilities for wastewater treatment-primary sedimentation, biological treatment and tertiary chemical processes. Nevertheless, they are still perceived as a possible source of contamination to the surface water bodies [5] and their work is strictly regulated (mainly Water 2022, 14, 521 2 of 15 for threshold levels of total suspended solids (TSS), biochemical oxygen demand on the fifth day (BOD 5 ), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) [6].…”

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Chemometric Evaluation of WWTPs’ Wastewaters and Receiving Surface Waters in Bulgaria

Mihaylova

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Kudłak

et al. 2022

Water

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Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) installations are designed and operated to reduce the quantity of pollutants emitted to surface waters receiving treated wastewaters. In this work, we used classical instrumental studies (to determine chemicals and parameters under obligations put with Directive 91/271/EEC), ecotoxicological tools (Sinapis alba root growth inhibition (SA-RG) and Heterocypris incongruens mortality (MORT) and growth inhibition (GRINH)) and multivariate statistical analysis to gain information on feature profiles of WWTPs’ effluents and the possible burden of surface water bodies receiving treated wastewaters in eleven locations of Bulgaria. Initial screening of results has shown that only phosphorus content exceeds the admissible level in 5 out 11 WWTP effluents, while As, Cr, Cu, Mn, and Zn show exceedance at several locations. The multivariate statistical analysis reveals the discriminating water quality parameters and outlines the ability of Heterocypris incongruens to evaluate the ecotoxicological potential of different groups of waters.

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confidence: 99%