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DETERMINATION OF NEW CARBONYL-CONTAINING DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS IN DRINKING WATER
Citation:
Weinberg, H. S., S. W. Krasner, AND S D. Richardson. DETERMINATION OF NEW CARBONYL-CONTAINING DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS IN DRINKING WATER. Presented at American Water Works Association Water Quality Technical Conference, Nashville, TN, November 11-15, 2001.
Impact/Purpose:
Determine the actual concentrations of suspected health-impacting DBPs produced using non-chlorine disinfectants, how often they occur, under what conditions they are formed, and their fate and transport in the distribution system.
Description:
Only a subset of all disinfection by-products were targeted for an intense occurrence study during the Information Collection Rule. Among 50 additional compounds selected for study because of their potential for significant toxicity, a group of carbonyl-containing compounds is being investigated for their occurrence in and fate during drinking water treatment. This paper looks at methods that were developed for detecting their presence at nano-molar levels and presents preliminary results of their occurrence in drinking water treatment plants paired for their different treatment regimes of the same source water.