Measurements and Loadings of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Storm Water, Combined Sewer Overflows, Rivers, and Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) Discharging to Massachusetts Bay
Menzie-Cura & Associates. 1995. Measurements and Loadings of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Storm Water, Combined Sewer Overflows, Rivers, and Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) Discharging to Massachusetts Bay. MBP-95-06. Massachusetts Bays Program, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Coastal Zone Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Water Management Division
The specific goals of the study were to collect sufficient PAH and conventional pollutant data for the major categories of source type and land use to characterize variability, and to identify statistical relationships between parameters which could be used to estimate PAH concentrations for other source areas, where only conventional pollutant data were available. The analysis had four main components: (1) identification of parameter statistical distributions and characterization of the variability of pollutant concentrations; (2) identification of statistical relationships between PAHs and conventional pollutants, for the measured nonpoint and point sources; (3) recalculation of loadings of PAHs to Massachusetts Bay from specific land use areas within the Boston Harbor and Salem Sound drainage basins; and (4) extrapolation of the results to other similar land use areas within the regions of the study, using data from the earlier study.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Menzie-Cura & Associates
- Date of Issue
- 1995-08
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Bays Program, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Coastal Zone Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Water Management Division
- Units
- SAIR , SAMA
- Keywords
- Boston, loadings, Massachusetts Bay, PAH, pollutant, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, water, water quality
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Water Chemistry , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Toxics