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Existing drinking water wells are widely used for the collection of ground water samples to evaluate chemical contamination. A well comparison study was conducted to compare pesticide and nitrate-N data from specially designed stainless steel research monitoring wells with data from nearby existing on-farm drinking water wells. Results could help to determine whether adequate information concerning ground water contamination can be obtained from existing drinking water wells for use in making pollutant control decisions. The study was conducted during 1993-1994 in the Little Coharie Watershed, a 158 square mile area located in the coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Statistical analysis indicated that research monitoring wells provided a greater probability of detecting pesticides in ground water than existing on-farm wells. Atrazine was the most frequently detected pesticide found in all wells, followed in order by fluometuron, carbofuran, metolachlor, alachlor, carbaryl, butylate, chlorothalonil, linuron and simazine. Ninety-seven percent of all wells had observed concentrations of nitrate-N, ranging from 0.1 to 30.1 mg/L. There was not a significant difference between research wells and existing wells for monitoring nitrate-N. Based on results of this study, existing drinking water wells can be used for monitoring nitrate; however, specialized stainless steel monitoring wells should be used for monitoring pesticides in ground water. 相似文献
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F. L. Ludwig E. Shelar Jr. 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(8):894-897
The extent to which existing ozone monitoring data can be used to represent concentrations outside the area immediately surrounding a monitoring station is investigated. The results should be of Interest to those who wish to define areas within which standards are likely to have been exceeded. Relationships are established between the observed second-maximum hour-average ozone concentrations and the area within which It is possible to state with reasonable probability that National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) have or have not been exceeded. All pairs of SAROAD stations (Storage and Retrieval of Aerometric Data) separated by 500 km or less which had nearly complete annual data sets were considered for the years 1974 through 1977 to determine the probability that the NAAQS would be exceeded at one station of the pair, given station separation and the observed second-maximum hourly ozone concentration at the other station. The resulting relationship was applied to SAROAD data for 1977, and circles were drawn around each SAROAD monitoring site to show the area within which it is 90% probable that the 120 ppb NAAQS was exceeded during 1977. 相似文献
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为规范我国固定污染源污水排放口及监测点位设置,以保障污水样品采集和流量监测的准确性与代表性,在调研与查阅国内外技术文献的基础上,总结了我国现有固定污染源污水排放口和监测点位设置中存在的主要问题,探讨了国内外相关标准规定的缺陷和不足;基于保障实际监测工作需要和便于监督管理的原则,兼顾流量监测的准确性、样品采集的代表性与监测人员采样安全考虑,探讨了排污单位污水排放口与监测点位数量、位置设置技术。结果表明:排污单位不得通过暗管排放污水,应在厂界10 m以内设置1个污水总排放口和1个雨水总排放口及监测点位,排放第1类污染物及其他有毒有害或需优先控制的污染物指标时需同时在车间或车间处理设施出口设置排放口和监测点位;污水日排放量超过50 t·d−1的排放口应按国家标准规范要求选择修建或安装适宜的标准化量水堰槽;其他排放口应修建满足污水采样监测和流量监测、长度不少于3 m的顺直排水明渠及高度不少于0.1 m的垂直跌水落差;通过压力管道排放污水时,应修建长度不少于15倍管径且需时刻满管的直管段,以安装管道流量计和取样阀门。排污单位须设置污水排放口环境保护图形标志与监测点位信息标志,制定污水排放口和监测点位的保障监测安全的防护措施及日常维护和管理的规定。污水排放口和监测点位的有关构筑物及相关设施应作为环境保护设施的组成部分,与主体工程“同时设计、同时施工、同时投产和使用”,且应作为建设项目竣工环境保护验收的必要条件。相关研究结果可为污水排放口和监测点位规范化整治提供技术依据,并为保证污水采样、监测与监管的安全有效实施提供技术保障。 相似文献
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《Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994)》2002,36(11):1783-1791
Under the Clean Air Act Amendments, the United States Environmental Protection Agency is required to regulate emissions of 188 hazardous air pollutants. The EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards is currently conducting a National-scale Air Toxics Assessment with a goal to identify air toxics which are of greatest concern, in terms of contribution to population inhalation risk. The results will be used to set priorities for the collection of additional air toxics emissions and monitoring data. Expanded ambient air toxics monitoring will take the form of a national air toxics monitoring network. With all monitoring data, however, comes uncertainty in the form of environmental variability (spatial and temporal) and monitoring error (sample collection and laboratory analysis). With this in mind, existing data from the Urban Air Toxics Monitoring Program (UATMP) were analyzed to obtain a general understanding of these sources of variability and then provide recommendations for managing the data uncertainties of a national network. The results indicate that environmental variability, in particular temporal, comprises most of the overall variability observed in the UATMP data. However, at lower ambient levels (on the order of 0.1–0.5 ppbv or lower) environmental variability tends to dissipate and monitoring error takes over, most notably analytical error. Overall, the results suggest that common techniques in ambient air toxics monitoring for carbonyls and volatile organic compounds may satisfy many of the primary objectives of a national air toxics monitoring network. 相似文献
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Holt MS Fox K Griessbach E Johnsen S Kinnunen J Lecloux A Murray-Smith R Peterson DR Schröder R Silvani M ten Berge WF Toy RJ Feijtel TC 《Chemosphere》2000,41(11):1799-1808
Monitoring and laboratory data play integral roles alongside fate and exposure models in comprehensive risk assessments. The principle in the European Union Technical Guidance Documents for risk assessment is that measured data may take precedence over model results but only after they are judged to be of adequate reliability and to be representative of the particular environmental compartments to which they are applied. In practice, laboratory and field data are used to provide parameters for the models, while monitoring data are used to validate the models' predictions. Thus, comprehensive risk assessments require the integration of laboratory and monitoring data with the model predictions. However, this interplay is often overlooked. Discrepancies between the results of models and monitoring should be investigated in terms of the representativeness of both. Certainly, in the context of the EU risk assessment of existing chemicals, the specific requirements for monitoring data have not been adequately addressed. The resources required for environmental monitoring, both in terms of manpower and equipment, can be very significant. The design of monitoring programmes to optimise the use of resources and the use of models as a cost-effective alternative are increasing in importance. Generic considerations and criteria for the design of new monitoring programmes to generate representative quality data for the aquatic compartment are outlined and the criteria for the use of existing data are discussed. In particular, there is a need to improve the accessibility to data sets, to standardise the data sets, to promote communication and harmonisation of programmes and to incorporate the flexibility to change monitoring protocols to amend the chemicals under investigation in line with changing needs and priorities. 相似文献
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Assessment and rationalization of water quality monitoring network: a multivariate statistical approach to the Kabbini River (India) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Musthafa Odayooth Mavukkandy Subhankar Karmakar P. S. Harikumar 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2014,21(17):10045-10066
The establishment of an efficient surface water quality monitoring (WQM) network is a critical component in the assessment, restoration and protection of river water quality. A periodic evaluation of monitoring network is mandatory to ensure effective data collection and possible redesigning of existing network in a river catchment. In this study, the efficacy and appropriateness of existing water quality monitoring network in the Kabbini River basin of Kerala, India is presented. Significant multivariate statistical techniques like principal component analysis (PCA) and principal factor analysis (PFA) have been employed to evaluate the efficiency of the surface water quality monitoring network with monitoring stations as the evaluated variables for the interpretation of complex data matrix of the river basin. The main objective is to identify significant monitoring stations that must essentially be included in assessing annual and seasonal variations of river water quality. Moreover, the significance of seasonal redesign of the monitoring network was also investigated to capture valuable information on water quality from the network. Results identified few monitoring stations as insignificant in explaining the annual variance of the dataset. Moreover, the seasonal redesign of the monitoring network through a multivariate statistical framework was found to capture valuable information from the system, thus making the network more efficient. Cluster analysis (CA) classified the sampling sites into different groups based on similarity in water quality characteristics. The PCA/PFA identified significant latent factors standing for different pollution sources such as organic pollution, industrial pollution, diffuse pollution and faecal contamination. Thus, the present study illustrates that various multivariate statistical techniques can be effectively employed in sustainable management of water resources. Highlights ? The effectiveness of existing river water quality monitoring network is assessed ? Significance of seasonal redesign of the monitoring network is demonstrated ? Rationalization of water quality parameters is performed in a statistical framework 相似文献
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Al-Rashidi MS Nassehi V Wakeman RJ 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》2005,138(2):219-229
The use of mathematical modelling for investigation of the efficiency of existing monitoring sites for the impact of SO(2) emissions from power stations in the state of Kuwait is described. The Industrial Source Complex Short Term (ISCST3) model is utilised to obtain the spatial and temporal variations of SO(2) over residential areas. Statistical comparison between the 50 highest daily measured and predicted SO(2) concentrations at six monitoring sites shows that the model is capable of generating results with accuracy of 60--94%. An important conclusion of this work is that the existing locations of the Kuwait-EPA monitoring stations are not suitable for measuring the actual impact of SO(2). Therefore, there is a need for relocation of these sites to register the highest levels of SO(2) emitted from the current power stations in the state of Kuwait. 相似文献
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Chien TW Chu H Hsu WC Tseng TK Hsu CH Chen KY 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2003,53(8):1022-1028
The continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) can monitor flue gas emissions continuously and instantaneously. However, it has the disadvantages of enormous cost, easily producing errors in sampling periods of bad weather, lagging response in variable ambient environments, and missing data in daily zero and span tests and maintenance. The concept of a predictive emission monitoring system (PEMS) is to use the operating parameters of combustion equipment through thermodynamic or statistical methods to construct a mathematic model that can predict emissions by a computer program. The goal of this study is to set up a PEMS in a gas-fired combined cycle power generation unit at the Hsinta station of Taiwan Power Co. The emissions to be monitored include nitrogen oxides (NOx) and oxygen (O2) in flue gas. The major variables of the predictive model were determined based on the combustion theory. The data of these variables then were analyzed to establish a regression model. From the regression results, the influences of these variables are discussed and the predicted values are compared with the CEMS data for accuracy. In addition, according to the cost information, the capital and operation and maintenance costs for a PEMS can be much lower than those for a CEMS. 相似文献
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R. J. Oshima 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(6):576-578
An air pollution monitoring biological indicator (AMBI) system for ambient ozone was tested in the South Coast Air Basin of California during the 1972 fall growing season. The basic unit or AMBI station was an inexpensive, portable plant station which operated independent of power sources. Reliability of these units was excellent as only three instances of missing data were observed from 330 possibilities. A photo-reference system of ozone injury evaluation utilizing direct comparisons of injured leaves with reference photographs was successful in standardizing assessments of ozone injury. Average weekly injury indices for field locations were correlated with average weekly ozone dosages and were found to be significant at the .01 level. 相似文献
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The objectives of this paper are to (1) identify the problems with many of the units that are used to report and regulate NOx, (2) show how to properly correct NOx measurements for oxygen-enhanced combustion, and (3) recommend a preferred type of NOx unit. The current variety of NOx units make comparisons difficult and can cause considerable confusion. NOx may be measured on a wet or dry basis, but it is commonly reported on a dry basis. The reported NOx may differ from the actual measurements, which may be converted to a specific O2 basis level. Nearly all of the measured NOx from industrial combustion systems is in the form of NO, which is converted to NO2 in the atmosphere. However, when given on a mass basis, the measured NO is commonly reported as NO2 for regulatory purposes, but may be reported as NO, NO2, or simply NOx in technical papers. Some existing regulations may penalize combustion technologies with higher efficiencies and lower flue gas volumes, such as oxygen-enhanced combustion. Confusion may occur when applying some of the "conventional" NOx units to oxygen-enhanced processes. A better unit is the mass of NOx generated per unit of production, which also incorporates the overall process efficiency into the emissions. That unit does not penalize more efficient processes that may generate more NOx on a volume basis, but less NOx on a production basis. 相似文献
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Edward L. Stockton Winthrop C. Shook 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(3):162-163
This year an automatic monitoring system will supplement existing air sampling stations in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). This system will measure pollutant levels and weather conditions at several remote sites. “On-site” recorders are equipped to telemeter the data in analog form to a central station. At the central, a multipoint recorder is supplied for each pollutant measured. This basic system, purchased for a modest initial investment, has complete capabilities for future expansion. An estimated fifteen sites will provide representative pollution data for Allegheny County. However, the basic system can be expanded to include industry installed monitoring stations—a possibilty now being considered. Further expansion to a complete Data Management system including a computer based data logger to calculate emission inventory, peak averages, and other control data is also provided for. 相似文献
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Christian Schurig Vinicio Alejandro Melo Anja Miltner Matthias Kaestner 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2014,21(15):9002-9015
At many contaminated field sites in Europe, monitored natural attenuation is a feasible site remediation option. Natural attenuation includes several processes but only the microbial degradation leads to real contaminant removal and very few methods are accepted by the authorities providing real evidence of microbial contaminant degradation activity. One of those methods is the recently developed in situ microcosm approach (BACTRAP®). These in situ microcosms consist of perforated stainless steel cages or PTFE tubes filled with an activated carbon matrix that is amended with 13C-labelled contaminants; the microcosms are then exposed within groundwater monitoring wells. Based on this approach, natural attenuation was accepted by authorities as a site remediation option for the BTEX-polluted site Zeitz in Germany. Currently, the in situ microcosms are restricted to the use inside groundwater monitoring wells at the level of the aquifer. The (classical) system therefore is only applicable on field sites with a network of monitoring wells, and only microbial activity inside the monitoring wells at the level of the aquifer can be assessed. In order to overcome these limitations, a new Direct-Push BACTRAP probe was developed on the basis of the Geoprobe® equipment. With respect to the mechanical boundary conditions of the DP technique, these new probes were constructed in a rugged and segmented manner and are adaptable to various sampling concepts. With this new probe, the approach can be extended to field sites without existing monitoring wells, and microbial activity was demonstrated to be measureable even under very dry conditions inside the vadose zone above the aquifer. In a field test, classical and Direct-Push BACTRAPs were applied in the BTEX-contaminated aquifer at the ModelPROBE reference site Zeitz (Germany). Both types of BACTRAPs were incubated in the centre and at the fringe of the BTEX plume. Analysis of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) patterns showed that the bacterial communities on DP-BACTRAPs were more similar to the soil than those found on classical BACTRAPs. During microbial degradation of the 13C-labelled substrate on the carrier material of the microcosms, the label was only slightly incorporated into bacterial biomass, as determined by PLFA analysis. This provides clear indication for decreased in situ natural attenuation potential in comparison to earlier sampling campaigns, which is presumably caused by a large-scale source remediation measure in the meantime. In conclusion, Direct-Push-based BACTRAPs offer a promising way to monitor natural attenuation or remediation success at field sites which are currently inaccessible by the technique due to the lack of monitoring wells or due to a main contamination present within the vadose zone. 相似文献
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Background Different types of indicators have been developed to describe the impact of chemicals on society and environment. Due to
the high number of substances and their different types of use, most of these indicators are directed to specific areas of
interest – regarding workplace safety, environmental health or consumer health. They address a specific subset of chemicals
and can be used for monitoring enterprise-specific, national or international management measures.
Main Features A survey of existing indicators for chemicals has shown that indicators already exist for a remarkable number of problem
fields. As soon as the release and the environmental fate of chemicals are taken into account, the complexity of the approaches
increases considerably. The distinction between indicators for drivers, pressures, state, impacts and responses, as proposed
by the European Environmental Agency, supports the identification of proper indicators for a specific type of problem.
Discussion and Conclusions. No single indicator exists which is able to cover the whole range of chemicals and their applications. Several
indicator approaches cover at least a subset of the most relevant substances. If they are intended to be used for European
monitoring, robust data must be provided by EU Member States.
Chemicals in enterprises (ancillary inputs as well as process chemicals) are an important element of in-plant material flow
management – in terms of occupational safety and health as well as environmental protection. Existing indicators for hazardous
chemicals can be a valuable tool for process and product refinement regarding hazardous chemicals, especially for enterprises.
Outlook Indicators for production and impact of chemicals, as well as policy performance indicators, are essential elements in order
to monitor the management of chemicals. They have to be established for the national and for the EU level. 相似文献
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用物元分析进行水质环境监测优化布点的研究 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
本文首次提出利用物元分析对水质环境监测优化布点的新方法。在确定了最佳和最次理想点基础上,建立了标准事物和节域事物的物元矩阵。该法具有计算简便、分析合理和容易推广的优点。 相似文献
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T.W. Chien W.C. Hsu T.K. Tseng C.H. Hsu K.Y. Chen 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(8):1022-1028
Abstract The continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) can monitor flue gas emissions continuously and instantaneously. However, it has the disadvantages of enormous cost, easily producing errors in sampling periods of bad weather, lagging response in variable ambient environments, and missing data in daily zero and span tests and maintenance. The concept of a predictive emission monitoring system (PEMS) is to use the operating parameters of combustion equipment through thermodynamic or statistical methods to construct a mathematic model that can predict emissions by a computer program. The goal of this study is to set up a PEMS in a gas-fired combined cycle power generation unit at the Hsinta station of Taiwan Power Co. The emissions to be monitored include nitrogen oxides (NOx) and oxygen (O2) in flue gas. The major variables of the predictive model were determined based on the combustion theory. The data of these variables then were analyzed to establish a regression model. From the regression results, the influences of these variables are discussed and the predicted values are compared with the CEMS data for accuracy. In addition, according to the cost information, the capital and operation and maintenance costs for a PEMS can be much lower than those for a CEMS. 相似文献
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Hauke Reuter Ulrike Middelhoff Frieder Graef Richard Verhoeven Thomas Batz Martin Weis Gunther Schmidt Winfried Schröder Broder Breckling 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2010,17(8):1479-1490
Background, aim and scope
European legislation stipulates that genetically modified organisms (GMO) have to be monitored to identify potential adverse environmental effects. A wealth of different types of monitoring data from various sources including existing environmental monitoring programmes is expected to accumulate. This requires an information system to efficiently structure, process and evaluate the monitoring data. 相似文献19.
Norman W. Frisch 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(5):574-575
Costs for as many as seven SO2 control technologies were determined for each of the 66 existing or planned coal-fired utility units in the state of Illinois, and projected operations for each unit from 1983 through the year 2000 were obtained from production cost modeling runs or other data. The Sulfur Dioxide Emission Reduction Optimization Program (SEROP), a utility-specific marginal cost pollution control model developed at Wisconsin Power and Light Co., was used to calculate annual marginal control cost data for each individual utility, and statewide aggregate data. The potential market in emission reduction credits (ERC) was then analyzed for three acid deposition control strategies. It was determined that emissions trading sufficient to meet targeted emission levels for acid deposition control in an economically efficient manner will not occur under any of the strategies unless the desire for utilities to maintain control of their ERCs in future years is taken into account. This can only be accomplished in one of two ways: 1) leasing of ERCs, or 2) a “contingent” sale where the buyer agrees to sell back the ERC after a specified period of time. Other factors affecting the feasibility of ERC leasing are discussed. 相似文献
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结合工作实践,归纳了目前建设项目环保设施竣工验收监测报告中存在的几个突出问题,提出了完善竣工验收监测报告的几点建议。 相似文献