Special Report No. 94-10: Summary Statistics for the Effluent Variability Study Database

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed revisions to the Effluent Guidelines Limitations for the pulp and paper industry. In order to assist in the setting of such limitations, the industry entered into cooperative agreement with the U.S. EPA to collect and analyze effluent and process data from eight chemically bleached pulp and paper mills. Final effluent and influent to treatment samples were analyzed at each of the mills for chlorophenolics, volatile organics, TCDD, TCDF, AOX, color, BOD5, and TSS; some COD analyses were also preformed.