municipal discharge

Today, the river flow is not natural, mostly consisting of agricultural runoff, municipal discharge and industrial dumping.

Nutrient enrichment of northern rivers in response to pulp mill and municipal discharges.

• The Ontario Municipal Discharge Strategy is being developed.

• Municipal discharge database (Ministry of the Environment)

A: The presence of coliform bacteria in prawn and shrimp samples does not correlate to specific municipal discharges.

Other methods include pretreatment for municipal discharge and advanced treatment for stream discharge or effluent irrigation.

Additional programs addressing the elimination of industrial and municipal discharges are addressed in the Harmful Pollutants Annex.

The chemical pollution from industrial or agricultural and municipal discharge results in impaired health of dolphins, for instance, reproductive disorders, and compromised immune system.

Groundwater is being threatened by saline intrusion and contamination from industrial effluents and untreated municipal discharges.

Development of a short-term in-situ caging methodology to assess long-term effects of industrial and municipal discharges on salmon smolts.

Comparison of phosphorus loadings with total municipal discharges, Lake Erie (includes contribution from Detroit River).

Finnish phosphorus removal measures started in the mid-1970s and have targeted rivers and lakes polluted by industrial and municipal discharges.

Environment Canada enforcement personnel collected samples during an inspection of the City of Dawson's municipal discharge on August 16, 2000.

However, the receiving environment was subject to inputs from other potential sources or confounding factors such as farm runoff, storm sewers, municipal discharges and upstream pulp mills.

It has been estimated that 90% of the Province’s municipal discharges occur in the Lower Fraser River Basin (Government of Canada 1996).

Presently employed by Environment Canada as Senior Program Engineer responsible for municipal discharges including sewage, urban stormwater, combined sewer overflows and solid waste management.

Cook Inlet activities include commercial fishing, oil and gas development, municipal discharges(which have only primary treatment like Anchorage), noise from aircraft and ships, shipping traffic, and tourism.

The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy (OMEE, 1997) provided a copy of its municipal discharge database, which includes data on ammonia concentrations from all municipalities in Ontario.

Historically, contaminants have entered the St. Lawrence River environment from the upper river and Lake Ontario, from local industrial and municipal discharges, urban stormwater, agricultural runoff and other diffuse sources such as air deposition.

Potent genotoxins usually found in domestic wastes also include N-nitroso compounds and aromatic amines, which are known to be present in human sanitary outflows as well as genotoxic PAHs found in municipal discharges.

On water pollution, her plan is to move away from monitoring individual discharges to what she calls a comprehensive "watershed approach," managing not only industrial and municipal discharges but all sources of pollution, including runoffs from farms and lawns.

Assuming that the discharge was via a simple pipe at the shoreline (one of the municipal discharge pipes) with no initial dilution, toxicity of greater than 1 TU could occur for up to about 104 seconds (167 minutes) after discharge.

Fair and marginal water quality may be due to industrial discharges, which are located at points throughout the watershed. These include a number of food processing plants and pulp and paper mills, numerous non-municipal and municipal discharges as well as runoff from urban development.

Research is conducted, both at the Experimental Lakes Area and at other lake and river study sites in northwestern Ontario and the Prairie Provinces, on issues involving disruptions to fish habitat caused by physical alterations and by industrial and municipal discharges.

GLSF Support: $30,000 Lake St. Francis and St. Lawrence River Tributary Restoration Project Contaminants have entered the St. Lawrence River through local industrial and municipal discharges, urban stormwater, agricultural runoff and air deposition.