A Screening Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Costs of Implementing Water Quality-Based Effluent limits at Publicly-Owned treatment Works in the Great Lakes Region

3 organizations filed 3 public comments on A Screening Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Costs of Implementing Water Quality-Based Effluent limits at Publicly-Owned treatment Works in the Great Lakes Region, at the Environmental Protection Agency. The comment window closed 7031d ago.

Abstract

Publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) discharge billions of gallons of effluent daily to receiving water bodies throughout the U.S. One of the principal pollutants associated with POTW effluent is organic matter. Naturally occurring microbial populations in receiving waters consume dissolved oxygen (DO) as they decompose organic matter.

Commenters (3)

• American Water Works Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 97%
• National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA)trade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 97%
• Waterkeeper Alliancetrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%