American Water Works Association
EPANonrulemakingEPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0240

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

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American Water Works Association filed 1 comment on this docket between May 3, 2007 and May 3, 2007. 2 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 7031d ago.

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May 3, 2007· Comment submitted by Thomas W. Curtis, Deputy Executive Director, American Water Works Association (AWWA)· EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0240-0002

Enclosed are the official comments from the American Water Works Association (AWWA).

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.

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