In order to assist drinking water utilities with identifying the possible sources and causes of taste-and-odor conditions associated with materials used in distribution systems, we evaluated information from case studies and a database from the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), International. This database identified chemicals that had leached from drinking water system components during testing of materials under ANSI/NSF Standard 61, which provides information to water utilities on potential taste-and-odor and health concerns from the use of new materials. The data were arranged to provide a process for locating the potential source of a taste-and-odor event. After a sensory analysis is conducted on the drinking water samples, the descriptor can be matched with categories on the "Drinking Water Taste and Odor Wheel 2000" in order to suggest the candidate material.
Until recently, the dissolved organic matter (DOM) of pore
waters was an overlooked pool of organic matter
important to the fate and transport of hydrophobic organic
chemicals (HOCs). The aqueous solubility enhancement
and the porewater DOM partition coefficient
(K
PWDOM) of
2,2‘,4,4‘-tetrachlorobiphenyl (TeCB) were compared in
samples of anoxic porewater and that same porewater after
aeration. Aeration of anoxic porewater increased TeCB
partitioning by porewater DOM. Despite a decrease in
DOM
concentration (coagulated by precipitated iron(III)
oxidized
during porewater aeration), oxic (aerated) porewaters had
greater solubility enhancement and up to an order of
magnitude larger K
PWDOM than anoxic (unaltered)
porewaters.
Anoxic porewaters with no detectable dissolved oxygen
and 45 mg/L dissolved iron(II) had the smallest TeCB
solubility
enhancement and K
PWDOM. Using
experimentally determined K
PWDOM values, a three-phase
equilibrium-partitioning
model predicts the following: (1) the distribution of
HOC
freely dissolved and associated with porewater DOM will
change when anoxic sediments are aerated; (2) HOC
mobility will increase with anoxic sediment aeration
because
HOC concentration in the aquatic phase will increase;
and (3) HOC bioavailability will be less in anoxic
porewaters
as compared to oxic systems because a smaller
concentration of HOC will be freely dissolved.
Reports by different scientific groups indicate concern about traces of drugs that could make their way into tap water. Studies indicate that activated carbon and ozone are promising treatment methods to remove traces of pharmaceuticals and pesticides. The Windsor Utilities Commission (WUC), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, evaluated the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting chemicals in its raw water supply, and the effectiveness of ozone in removing these compounds. The analysis indicated that trace levels of compounds such as carbamazepine, caffeine, cotinine, and atrazine were detected in raw water and that treatment with ozone resulted in a greater removal versus conventional treatment.
Riverine water samples (dissolved and particulate), surficial bottom sediments, and trapped sediments were collected mostly monthly from three stations along the Clinton River, in southeastern Michigan, over a period of ,1 yr and analyzed for 7 Be and 210 Pb to elucidate the types and rates of processes affecting particle dynamics in a riverine system. Using a simple irreversible scavenging box model approach, sources and sinks for dissolved and particulate 7 Be and 210 Pb were quantified to estimate their residence times in the dissolved and particulate phases. Resuspension rates of surficial bottom sediments calculated from the mass balance of particulate 7 Be varied from 0.50 to 1.34 (geometric mean: 0.83 6 0.34) g cm 22 yr 21 , while corresponding values varied from 0.16 to 1.48 (GM: 0.38 6 0.38) g cm 22 yr 21 using particulate 210 Pb. Based on the 210 Pb mass balance, it appears that only ,2% of 210 Pb was derived from direct atmospheric deposition, while ,98% was derived from resuspension of bottom sediments. Additionally, there was a large discrepancy between mass flux collected in the trap (GM: 8.9 g cm 22 yr 21 ) compared to net sediment accumulation rates (GM: 0.88 6 0.38 g cm 22 yr 21 ), which was attributed to sediment resuspension; this may provide insight into the frequency of particle-recycling events. Furthermore, desorption of particle-reactive species during resuspension events could result in the mobility of contaminants to farther distances from the contaminated site. Therefore, this study has direct relevance to the uptake of particle-reactive species in a riverine system and thereby the water quality of rivers.
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