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Knowledge is Power: Options for Improving Mercury TMDLS
Abstract
TMDLs need to be directionally correct before they can be applied as useful tools for water quality restoration. Many mercury TMDLs rely on simplified assumptions that are not consistent with real world data. They also ignore confounding factors that may have a more significant influence on methyl mercury levels in fish than mercury loading to water. A significant number of mercury TMDLs remain to be developed. Those TMDLs should benefit from our emerging knowledge about mercury cycling in the water environment.
TMDLs need to be directionally correct before they can be applied as useful tools for water quality restoration. Many mercury TMDLs rely on simplified assumptions that are not consistent with real world data. They also ignore confounding factors that may have a more significant influence on methyl mercury levels in fish than mercury loading to water. A significant number of mercury TMDLs remain to...
Author(s)
Dennis LeonardBrooks M. Smith
SourceProceedings of the Water Environment Federation
SubjectArticles
Document typeConference Paper
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Oct, 2007
ISSN1938-6478
SICI1938-6478(20071001)2007:5L.1287;1-
DOI10.2175/193864707786619206
Volume / Issue2007 / 5
Content sourceTMDLS Conference
First / last page(s)1287 - 1295
Copyright2007
Word count89
Subject keywordsMERCURY TMDLSLINEAR RELATIONSHIPSSTEADY STATE CONDITIONSTRANSPORT MECHANISMSATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONEVASIONCONFOUNDING FACTORS

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