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18599110

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-4
pubmed:abstractText
Environmental quality standards are an important tool for assessing the chemical quality of water bodies under the Water Framework Directive. However, there must be confidence in assessments of any failure to avoid disproportionate investment in unnecessary risk reduction. Metals present a number of unique challenges for environmental regulators in that they are naturally occurring and their ecotoxicology is driven, in part, by the physico-chemical conditions of the water body in which they are present. This paper describes the use of a tiered approach that could be adopted to assess compliance with any future environmental quality standards for metals under the Water Framework Directive. Through this approach, the use of background concentrations is considered and also bioavailability via the use of biotic ligand models. This assessment is based on an analysis of routine Environment Agency chemical monitoring data combined with biological indices to support results of the approach. Using copper and zinc as examples, it is shown that it is important to take account of background concentrations and the bioavailability of metals, otherwise the risk of impact from metals may be significantly overestimated. The approach presented here provides a methodology by which regulators and the regulated community may implement surface water standards for metals under the Water Framework Directive.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0048-9697
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
403
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Copper and zinc water quality standards under the EU Water Framework Directive: the use of a tiered approach to estimate the levels of failure.
pubmed:affiliation
Atkins Ltd, Chilbrook Oasis Business Park, Eynsham, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX29 4AH, UK. sean.comber@atkinsglobal.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article