CONCENTRATIONS OF HARMFUL SUBSTANCES IN WATER ACCORDING TO USSR STANDARDS

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• Document Release Date: July 12, 2011
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1955
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CONCENTRATIONS OF HARMFUL SUBSTANCES
IN WATER ACCORDING TO USSR STA ARDS
Khimicheskaya Prmiyshlennost', Nc 6, K. F. Vinogradov, Chief of the
Moscow, Sep 1954 Scientific Research Institute
Division, Technical Administration
of the Ministry of Chemical Industry USSR
The Main State Sanitary Inspection of the USSR has set the following maxi-
mum permissible limits for concentrations of harmful substances in the water of
basins and/or reservoirs ("vodoyemy"). The concentrations are expressed in
milligrams per liter.
Lead
Mercury
Arsenic
Copper
Nickel
Divalent zinc
Active chlorine:
consideration of
Fluorine
Carbon bisulfide
Cyanogen
Picric acid
0.1
0.005
0.05
0.1
0.1
must be absent (under 5.0
the resorption of chlorine)
1.5
1.0
0.1
0.5
The presence of organic acids (formic, acetic, butyric, lactic and benzoic
acids) is admissible within the limits permitted by the calculation of the con-
tent of organic substances in water basins and/or reservoirs according to BPK
(Bath and laundry Coefficients?] indices, while the oxygen regime must corres-
pond to NSP [Sanitary Standards of the Industry] 101-51.
The presence of petroleum and petroleum products (in the dissolved or
emulsified state) is permissible in the following concentrations, under con-
sideration of the requirements of NSP-101-51 on the basis of the index for
"floating admixtures":
Petroleum and petroleum products rich in sulfur 0.1
Others
Phenols (phenol odors due to the effect of active chlorine
on aqueous solutions of phenols) 0.001
(If phenols are present in waste waters and the possibility that
these phenols may give rise to chlorophenol odors has not been investi-
gated, tests for chlorophenol odor must be carried cut)
Sulfides: must be absent (under consideration of the oxygen
regime according to NSP-101-51 for winter conditions)
Trivalent .:hromium (on the basis of chromium)
0.5
Hexavalent chromium (on the basis of chromium)
0.1
5.0
0.2
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(If DDT is dissolved in carbon tetrachloride or kerosene, the
permissible concentrations of these-solvents must be taken
into consideration)
Dinitronaphthalene (in water basins and/or reservoirs of
categories I and II
Dinitronaphtbalene (in water basins and/or reservoirs of
category III
Dichloroethane
2.0
Chlorobenzene
0.1
Trinitrotoluene
0.5
Dinitrobenzene
0.5
Dinitrochlorobenzene
Tetranitromethane
0.5
The maximum permissible concentKatjons listed cpove have been compiled
for use in the solution of problems connected with tlie-determination of con-
ditions under which waste waters can be released into basins and/or reservoirs,
in accordance with NSP-101-51.
Publication of this cancels Table 3 ("Maximum Permissible Concentrations
of Harmful Substances in the Water of Basins and/or Reservoirs") contained in
the collection [of regulations?) "Industrial Waste Waters," Issue 1, 1948,
edited by the Main State Sanitary Inspector of the USSR.
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