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EVALUATION OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMOVAL OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS
Citation:
Schenck*, K M., T F. Speth*, E. R. Krishnan, B. V. Pepich, S. Wendelken, L Rosenblum, AND T. Wiese. EVALUATION OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMOVAL OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS. Presented at U.S. Governmental Conference on Water Quality Management and Wastewater Control, Tokyo, Japan, 10/21-24/2002.
Description:
Many of the chemicals identified as potential endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) may be present in surface or ground waters used as drinking water sources due to their introduction from domestic and industrial sewage treatment systems and wet-weather runoff. In order to decrease the risk of potential adverse health effects associated with the presence of EDCs in drinking water, two basic strategies exist. One is to protect source waters from contamination by EDCs. The other is to remove EDCs, which may be present in source waters, during the drinking water treatment process. This project addresses the later approach by evaluating the removal of several EDCs by various drinking water treatment processes. This project is divided into four parts. The first is the development of an analytical method to identify and quantify the analytes. The second is the application of a reporter gene assay, the MVLN assay, to evaluate the removal of estrogenic activity from the water samples. Once the analytical and MVLN assays are in place, bench-scale evaluations of various drinking water treatment processes will be conducted. These will include conventional treatment, granular activated carbon, softening and nanofiltration. For each of these processes, pilot-scale evaluations may be conducted, if warranted.