TILE RATIONALE FOR OHIO'S DETERGENT PHOSPHORUS BAN
| Autor: | John H. Hartig, David M. Dolan, Christine Trautrim, David E. Rathke |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Ecology
Waste management Laundry Phosphorus education Environmental engineering chemistry.chemical_element chemistry Wastewater Environmental science Combined sewer Sewage treatment Water pollution Eutrophication Effluent health care economics and organizations Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 26:201-207 |
| ISSN: | 1752-1688 1093-474X |
| Popis: | Ohio signed into law a detergent phosphorus ban on March 26, 1988. This law limits the elemental phosphorus content of household laundry detergents to 0.5 percent in all 35 Lake Erie counties in Ohio by 1990. Ohio's detergent phosphorus ban will help non-compliant municipal wastewater treatment plants achieve compliance with the 1 mg/L effluent phosphorus standard. By limiting the phosphorus content of household laundry detergents, Ohio will also benefit from less phosphorus entering surface waters from combined sewer overflows, communities with treatment plant bypasses, and riparian homes with septic tanks. This is important because most of the phosphorus in laundry detergents is in the bioavailable form and Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline is particularly sensitive to Cladophora problems. When viewed in conjunction with reduced chemical costs for phosphorus removal and savings in sludge disposal costs, Ohio's detergent phosphorus ban is a pragmatic component of an international phosphorus management strategy to protect the Great Lakes. |
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