Auditing the Quality of Effluent Discharges

A. E. Warn
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A. E. Warn: Anglian Water Authority

A chapter in Statistical Methods for the Assessment of Point Source Pollution, 1989, pp 65-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The public and their elected representatives want to see whether they get Value-for-Money from investment in preventing pollution. For many rivers, the achievement of good water quality is a matter of regulating the discharges from wastewater treatment plants. The effective audit of the quality of such discharges is a good basis for measuring progress in controlling pollution. To prove that control is effective, the techniques which underpin the following tasks must be sound and consistent: the standards for rivers must be devised so that the environmental objectives are met with the required reliability; the form of the standards will be constrained by the procedures available to monitor compliance; the standards worked out for effluents must have the correct mathematical relation with the river targets, and they too must be consistent with the options available for auditing performance; the assessment of compliance must be objective; and, statistics used to summarise the performance of a region (or a Nation) must be simple, stable, clear, and consistent with the results for individual sites.

Keywords: Confidence Limit; Water Quality Standard; Wrong Decision; Effluent Discharge; Failed Sample (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1960-0_5

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