United Statw
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Wattr
Regulations and Standards
Washington, DC 20460
EPA 440/5-88/021
S«pt0mb«r 1388
Watar
Pesticides
Water Quality Standards
Criteria Summaries:
A Compilation
of State/Federal Criteria
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DISCLAIMER
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INTRODUCTION
This digest is compiled to provide general information to the public as veil
as to Federal, State, and local officials. It contains excerpts from the
individual Federal-State water quality standards establishing pollutant
specific criteria for interstate surface waters. The water quality standards
program is implemented by . the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency vhere
responsibility for providing vater quality recommendations, approving
State-adopted standards for interstate waters, evaluating adherence to the
standards, and overseeing enforcement of standards compliance, has been
mandated by Congress.
Standards, a nationwide strategy for surface vater quality management, contain
three major elements: the use (recreation, drinking vater, fish and wildlife
propagation, industrial, or agricultural) to be made of the navigable vater;
criteria to protect these uses; and an antidegradation statement to protect
existing high quality vaters, froa degradation by the addition of pollutants.
Guidance for the development of standards by individual States is contained in
tvo EPA documents entitled Eater Quality Standards Handbook (1983) and Quality
Criteria for Water (1986).
This digest summarizes fifteen pesticides vhich are usually incorporated into
State Vater Quality Standards and for vhich EPA has recommended criteria in
OCT. These pesticides ares Aldrin/dieldria, chlordane, chlorophenoxy
herbicides, DDT, demeton, endosulfan, endria, guthion, heptaehlor, lindane,
malathion, methoxychlor, mirex, parathion, and toxaphene. All of these
chemicals are man-made for the control -of insects, fungus- and other plant and
animal diseases or disease vectors. The presence of any of these substances
in national vaters are a result of an intrusion from non-point sources
associated vith agricultural or forestry application and point source
production facility effluents. To control the presence of aldrin/dieldrin,
DDT (DDD and -DDE), endrin and toxaphene in vater, EPA promulgated effluent
standards for manufacturers of these pesticides (40 CTR 129).
All of these substances exert detrimental effects on aquatic and animal life;
some are suspected mutagens or carcinogens. For these reasons EPA recommended
the ambient vater quality criteria presented bolov. All criteria in this
document represent the maximum concentration permissable unless otherwise
noted.*
Aldrin
Dieldrin
Preahvater Aquatic Lift -
Saltwater Aquatic Life -
Freshvater Aquatic Lif* -
4.0 ug/L
1.3 ug/L
0.0019 ug/L (24-hour avg)
1.0 ug/L
Saltwater Aquatic Life - 0.0019 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.71 ug/L
For the maximum protection of human health from the
potential carcinogenic, effects of exposure to aldrin
and dieldrin through injestion of contaminated vater
and contaminated aquatic organisms, the ambient vater'
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concentration should be zero, based
nonthreshold assumption for these chemicals.
on
the
Chlordane
Chlorophenoxy
Herbicides
Freshwater Aquatic Life - 0.0043 ug/L (24-hour avg)
2.4 ug/L
Saltwater Aquatic Life - 0.0040 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.09 ug/L
For the. maximum protection of human health from the
potential carcinogenic effects of exposure to
chlordane through infestion of contaminated vater and
contaminated aquatic organisms, the ambient vater
concentration should be zero based on the nonthreshold
assumption for this chemical.
Domestic Vater Supply:
2,4-D 100 ug/L
2,4,5-Tf 10 ug/L
DOT and Metabolites Freshwater Aquatic Life -
0.0010 ug/L (24-hour avg)
1.1 Ug/L
Demeton
Endosulfan
Endrin
Saltwater Aquatic Life - 0.0010 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.13 ug/L
j
Fbf th« maximum protection of human health from the
potential carcinogenic 'effects of exposure "to DDT
through ingestion of contaminated water and
contaminated aquatic organisms, the ambient water
concentration should be zero, based on the
nonthreshold assumption for this
chemical.
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life - 0.1 ug/L
Freshwater Aquatic Life - 0.056 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.22 ug/L
Saltwater Aquatic Life - 0.0087 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.034 ug/L
For the protection of human health from the toxic
properties of endosulfan ingested through vater and
contaminated aquatic organisms, the ambient water
criterion is determined to be 74 ug/L.
For th« protection of human health from the toxic
properties of endosulfan ingested through contaminated
aquatic organisms alone, the ambient vater criterion
is determined to be 159 ug/L.
Freshwater Aquatic Life - 0.0023 ug/L (24-hour avg)
0.18 ug/L
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Guthion
Heptacalor
Lindane
Malathion
Methoxychior
Mirex
Parathion
Toxaphone
Saltwater Aquatic Life - 0.0023 ug/L (24-hour av*)
0.037 ug/L . 8'
Human Health - 1.0 ug/L
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life - 0.01 ug/L
Freshwater Aquatic Life - 0.0038 Ug/L (24-hour
0.52 ug/L
Saltvater Aquatic Life - 0.0036. ug/L (24-hour av*)
0.053 ug/L
,
i °n
not specified
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life- 0.1 ug/L
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life - 0.03 ug/L
Domestic Water 'Supply - 100 ug/L
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life - 0.001 ug/L
Freshwater and Marine Aquatic Life - 0.04 ug/L
Freshwater Aquatic Life - 0.013 ug/L (24-hour avg)
1-6 ug/L
Saltvater Aquatic Life - 0.070 ug/L
e. fro-
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!?fi •J101'111* f« tta StaS, to^KS^tir^tSSir^10!!? *f' acco»Pli3h«d
vill be updated and reissued. BeLusIth?,^, M ? *«co^inglyt this digest
use other tiian as a general lnfS2J< P ublicatlon ±s «»« intended for
information ,ad for spJSil pur^seT JS «??««•. to obtain the latest
r.f.r to tta current ajplp^d *i0nSth' reader nceds
fro. the Stat, water pollution
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REFERENCES
3 Water Quality Boundaries and Standards (Arizona), Article 2. Surface Water
Quality Standards, A.R.S R18.ll, 1987.
5 California Water Quality Standards by Riber Basins, ca. 1975
For more detailed information on selected basins, sub-basins and stretches
of streams and coastal areas refer to California State Water Quality
Standards.
12 Idaho Dcpartaent of Health and Welfare Rules and Regulations, Title 1,
Chapter 2, "Water Quality Standards and Wastevater Treatment
Requirements", 1980.
25 Missouri Water Quality Standards, 10 CSR 20-7.031, Rule of Department of
Natural Resources: Division 20 - Clean Water Commission.
31 Water Quality Standards for Interstate and Intrastate Streams in Nev
Mexico, State of Nev Mexico Water Quality Control Commission, 1988.
35 Ohio Water Quality Standards, Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code,
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, 1985.
•42 Tennessee's Water Quality Criteria and Stream- Use Classifications for.
interstate and Intrastate Streams, Tennessee Water Quality Control Board:
Department of Health and Environment, 1987. ^
43 Texas . Surface Water Quality Standards, Texas Water Commission, Rule
Change, 1988.
44 Utah Standards of Quality for Waters of the State, Wastevater Disposal
Regulations: Part H, State of Utah Department of Health: Division of
Environmental Health, 1988.
46 Virginia Water Quality Standards, State Water Control Board, 1987.
51 Water Quality Standard* for American Samoa, 1984, p. 19.
52 Water Quality Standards of the District of Columbia, Chapter 42, Notice of_
Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking, Department of Consumer and Regulatory
Affairs, p.TS
53 Revised Guam Water Quality Standards, Guam Environmental Protection
Agency, 1984, p. 11-12.
54 Commonvealth of Northern Marianas Islands Marine and Fresh Water Quality
Standards, Commonvealth Register, Vol. 8 No. 5, 1986, p. 4464-4468.
55 Puerto Rico Water Quality Standards Regulation,
Board, 1983.
Environmental Quality
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57
B.VIBONMEOT REPORTS.. Th. Bur«» of
Trust Territory,
of th-
Affair,, Inc., ^hinjton, D.C.
1 Pag«a 701:1003-1010, June 26, 1981
2 Pagu 706:1003-1009, Nov«ab«r 7, 1986
4 Pag« 716:1005, August 30, 1985
6 Pages 726:1005-1006, August 22, 1986
7 Pag. 731:1002, Mmy 14, 1982
8 Pages 736:1007-1010, March 28, 1986
9 Pages 746:1011-1013, January 21, 1983
10 Pages 751:0503-0505, Deeeiber 27, 1985
11 "Page 7!56:1002/ September 20, 1985 '
13 Pagw 766:0505-0506, :0514, March 28, 1986; 766:0507-0508, May 25, 1984
1986, 771:1003-1006,
10,
15 Pages 776:1005-1006, February 13, 1987
16 Pages 781:1011-1012, March 27, 1987
17 Pages 786:1007-1009, November 29, 1985
18 Pages 791:1005-1006, :1008-1009, January 18, 1985
19 Pages 796x0104-0108, April 18, 1986
20 Page 801il002, April 19, 1985
21 Page 80(5:1002, Jun« 21, 198S
22 Pages 8:11:1003-1004, February 13, 1987
23 Pages 816:1003-1006, : 1009-1010, June 25, 1982
24 Pages 821: 1002-1003, October 25, 1985
26 Pages 831:1004-1009, April 19, 1985
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27 Pages 836:1003-1006, March 27, 1987
28 Pages 841:1001, xlOll, s!013, :1087, February 22, 1985; 841:1005, :1008,
:1026, :1065, June 29, 1984
29 Pages 846:1002-1004, :1008-1009, October 5, 1984
30 Pages 851:1004, :1009-1010, :1018-1019, :1021, April 11, 1986
32 Page 861:1007-1028, Noveaber 29, 1985
33 Pages 866:1006, December 27, 1985; 866:1010-1013, August 29, 1986
34 Pages 871:1002-1004, June 7, 1985
36 Pages 881:1003-1008, :1014, Septcaber 26, 1986
37 Page 886:1007, Hay 9, 1986
38 Pages 891:1004-1009, August 9, 1985
39 Pages 901:1002-1005, :1012-1016, August 9, 1985
40 Pages 906:1004, :1006-1009, November 29, 1985
41 Pages 911:1003-1005, March 22, 1985 , '
45 Page 931s1006, March 22, 1985
47 Pages 941:1003-1005, October 21, 1983
48 Pages 946:1002, :1009, August 10, 1984
49 Page 951:1002, March 13, 1987
50 Page 956:1005, July 5, 1985
52 Page 741:1002-1005, March 28, 1986
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Stateand 1'ater Use
Criteria
All
Public tfater Supply
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts
alone or in combination with other substances
not render the waters unsafe or unsuitable as
a source of water supply for drinking or
f??!:P*ec«Mliig purposes, or injurious to fish,
and aquatic life, or adversely affect the
Swimming and Other
Whole Body
Vater-Contaet Sports
Shellfish^Harvesting
Toxic substances narrative: Only such, whether alone
^J° C0llbln*tion v*th other substances or wastes, as
will not render the water unsafe or unsuitable for
«"-«»««« sports; be injurious to
mh and aquatic life or, where applicable,
shriap and crabs; iapair the payability of fish, or
where applicable, shrimp and crabs; iapair the waiers
i 4*?07 , Oth€r "**«« «stablished for this
classification or unreasonably affect the aesthetic
value of waters for any use under this classification.
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts,
whether alone or in combination with other substances
as will mot b« injurious to fiah and aquatic life
including, shrimp" and crabs;' affect the marketability
of fish and shellfish, including shriap and craisi
exceed one-tenth of the 96-hour median tolerance limit
and Jabs'! ******* li£* or sn«1"isa» including shrimp
Pish and Wildlife
Agricultural &
Industrial Waiter
Supply
Industrial Operations
substances narrative: Only such amounts,
mi T 2f *? «abin«tion »ith other substances
as will not be injurious to fish and aquatic life,
including shrimp and crabs in estuarine or salt waters
SL S*?!!011***^ tn«r«of; not to exceed one-tenth of
the 9«-hour median tolerance limit for fish and
aquatic life, including shrimp and crabs in salt and
«-I!!fJn**4 v*t*"' u «*e«P< that other limiting
concentrations may be used when factually justified
and approved by the Commission. ju*wnea
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts as will
not render the waters unsuitable for agricultural
SSiJ0?' liv«stock watering, industrial cooling,
industrial process water supply purposes, and fish
survival, nor interfere with downstream water uses.
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts as will
not render the waters unsuitable for industrial
cooling and industrial process wator supply purposes,
nor interfere with downstream water uses.
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Stats and Water I3ae
Criteria Values
Navigation
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts as vill
not render the waters unsuitable for agricultural
irrigation, livestock watering, industrial cooling,
and industrial process water supply purposes, where
applicable, nor interfere with downstream water use.
Alask*
All
I. Fresh Water
(A) Water Supply
(i) Drinking,
Culinary & Food
Processing.
Mot specified
Toxic substances narrative: Shall not exceed Alaska
Drinking Water Standards or EPA Quality Criteria for
Water.
(ii) Agricultural Toxic substances narrative: Same as I.(A)(i) where
incl. Irrigation and contact with a product destined for subsequent human
Stock, Watering consumption is present. Same as I. (C) or FWFCA Water
Quality Criteria(WQC/FWPCA) as applicable to
substances2orstodcwaters. Concentrations for
irrigation waters shall not exceed (WQC/FWPCA) or WQC
1972. .
(iii) AQuaeulture
Toxic substances narrative: Shall not individually or
in combination exceed 0.01 times the lowest measured
96-hour LC5fl for life stages of species identified by
the department as being the most sensitive,
biologically important to the situation or exceed
criteria cited in EPA Quality Criteria for Water or
Alaska Drinking Water Standards' whichever
concentration is less. Substances shall not be
present or exceed 'concentrations which individually or
in combination impart undesirable odor or taste to
fish or other aquatic organisms as determined by
either bioassay or organoleptic tests.
(iv) Industrial,
Including Any Water
Supplies Used In Asso-
ciation With A Manu-
facturing Or Production
Enterprise (other than
Food Processing), In-
cluding Mining, Placer
Mining, Energy Produc-
tion Or Development.
Toxic substances narrative: Substances shall not
present which pose hazards to worker contact.
be
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State and ¥«t«r n*« Criteria VmluM
(B) ffatur Recreation
Toxic substances narrative: Same as I.(A)(i).
RecreaJio«SeC°ndmry or^LrSh^"3 na«ativ«s Substances shall
present which pose hazards to
A*«Hl££S£r lT^^r^^irf±^U^ individually or'
fish, Othtr Aquatic 96-hour ^SofoTlS «?L T thV°v«" M^ured
Life, And Wildlife the d«Lrt».nJ L if? ^?M °£ sis«ci«s identified by
Including Waterfowl biologiSlyi.wrta^'tf ?h!T s*nsitive'
And Furbearers .-"rif,- .?.1?p°5tan!_to tn« location, or
II. Marine Water
(A) Water Supply
(i) Aquaculture
(ii) Seafood
Frocessing
Toxic substances narrative: Saae as I.(A).(iii).
-iffiS.«
Supplies Used In Assoc-
iation Vith A Manu-
facturing Or Production
Enterprise (other than
Pood Procesaing) Includ
ing Mining, Placer
Mining, Energy Pro-
duction Or Development.
Same as I.(A)(iv).
CB)
Recreation
shmn
applicabl« to applicable
Recrwtion SkMOndmry To*lc »«b^*nces narrative: Same as I.(B)(ii).
Toxic
fish, Aquatic Life And
Vildlife Including Sea-
birds, Vaterfovl And
Pur bearers.
Same as I.(C),
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State and Pater Ps« Criteria Values
(D) Harvesting For
Consumption Of Raw
Mollusks Or Other Raw
Aquatic Life
Toxic substances narrative: Sane as I.(C) but
excluding the phrase "or Alaska Drinking Vater
Standards."
Arizona
All Surface Vater
Aldrin/Dieldrin
DDT, ODD, and DDE
Endria
Toxaphene
Benzidone
0.003
0.001
0.004
0.005
0.10
(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative: All surface vaters shall
be free from toxic, corrosive, or other deleterious
substances attributable to domestic or industrial
vast* or other controllable sources at levels or in
combinations sufficient to be toxic to human, animal,
plant, or aquatic life. With respect to fish
toxieity, receiving vaters outside mixing zones shall
not have a concentration of toxic materials exceeding
1/10 of the 96-hour LC50, vhere the bioassay is
conducted using fish inhabiting the receiving vaters
and vherc water quality conditions(temperature,
hardness, pfl, dissolved oxygen, «te.) • approximate
' thoa« of the stream or lake as closely as practical.
The survival of -the test organisms shall not be less
than that of the control organisms exposed to an
appropriate vater sample. Ho person shall cause toxic
substances to be present at concentrations which
interfere vith designated protected uses.
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Arkansas
All
Substance
Aldria
DUldrin
DOT (6 matabol.)
Endrin
Toxaphene
Chlordane
Bndosulfan
Heptaehlor
Chronic Toxieity
(24hr avg- ug/1)
0.014
0.0019
0.0010
0.0023
0.0002 (4-day avg)
0.0043
0.056
0.0038
Acute Toxieity
(never exceed- ug/1)
2.0
3.0
1.1
18
(1-hr avg)
0.
0.73
2.4
0.22
0.52
All
Pentaehlorophenol e(1.005(pE)-5.290] e[1.00S(pfl)-4.83GJ
(4-day avg.)
Toxic materials shall not be present in receiving
waters, after mixing, in such quantities as to be
toxic to hunan, animal, plant or aquatic life or to
interfere vith .the normal propagation, growth and
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State and ?ater Use
Criteria
California-
All
.3
Colorado3
Aquatic Lifii
Class 1
indigenous aquatic biota. Vithin the
h .rf.' »* b« * zone of initial dilution
vhich exceeds the acute toxicity. In no instance
shall the entire mixing zone be acutely toxic
Compounds khovn to be persistent? cuLlalive*
carcinog^ic or to exhibit synergism vith o^er valte
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Ito individual pesticide or combination of pesticides
SuA^Jk D9 DfffiSA&t XD Cnflfmatl 1"^m 4*4 *»••«• *L. ^ s •
-- . f*«^«»*fc *** wunctuitrations that adv»r«»lv
affect beneficial uses. There shall II no
bioaccumulation in pesticide concentrations found ?n
bottom sediments or aquatic life.
a
shall
£
in
Chlorln*tcd ^drocarbon pesticides
be present at concentrations detectable
* acSUr!C? °f ^y'icad »«thods prescribed
Methods for the Examination of Water anl
^* *iition» « other equivalent
. approved by the Executive Officer.
Aldrin(2>
Dieldrin(Z)
DDT(DDD &
Endrin
DDE)
(2)
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Hires
Toxaphene
Deaeton
Endosulfao
Guthion
Malathion
Farathion
.
0.000003(3)
O.CXXWOl
0.000004
0.000001
0.00001
0.00003
0.000001
0.000005
0.0001
0.000003
0.00001
0.0001
0.00004
Drinking Vattr Supply
Chlordane
Endrin
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Toxaphena
2,4.0
0.000004
0.02
0.004
0.1
0.005
0.1
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State aad gater Use
Criteria Values
All
Except where authorized by permits, BMP's or plans of
operation approved by the Division, State waters shall
be free froa substances attributable to human-caused
point source or nonpoint source discharges in amounts,
concentrations or combinations which are harmful to
beneficial uses or toxic to humans, animals, plants,
or aquatic lift.
Footnotes:
(2) The persistence, biaccumulative potential, and
carcinogenic!ty of these organic compounds cautions
human exposure to a minimum (EPA).
(3) Aldrin and dieldrin in combination should not
exceed 0.000003 mg/1.
Connecticut
All
All
Not specified
' General Policy 11. The
eheoieal constituents in
Coastal And Marine
Water Uses
Toxic substances narrative:
waters shall be free from
concentrations or combinations which would be harmful
to human, animal or aquatic life for the most .
sensitive 'and governing water use class. Criteria for.
chemical constituents contained in guidelines
published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
shall be considered. In areas where fisheries are the
governing consideration and numerical limits have not
been established, bioassays may be necessary to
establish limits on toxic substances. The
recommendations for bioassay procedures contained in
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Vastevater* and the application factors contained in
EPA water quality guidelines shall be considered. For
surface waters classified as public drinking water,
the raw water sources must be maintained at a quality
MM defined by criteria developed by the U.S. EPA in
accordance vith the Safe Drinking Water Act (PL
93-523) or state limits, whichever is more stringent,
so that criteria for finished water can be met after
conventional treatment.
Toxic substances narrative: None in concentrations
or combinations which would be harmful to human,
animal or aquatic life or which would make the waters
unsafe or unsuitable for fish or shellfish or their
propagation, impair the palatability of same, or
impair the waters for any other uses. (See General
Policy .11.. above)
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Stiteand Water Use
Delaware'
An
8
Criteria ?alu««
Not specified
General Stream Criteria Toxic ^tance, narrative: All surface tfaters if the
State shall be free from substances attributable to
' ^£L, industrial, municipal, agricultural or other
anthropogenic origin, such as any pollutants,
Freshwater and Salt-
water Streaiis)
Public Water Supply
ERES Waters
i™ ' eer
with attainment of designated uses of the vater
impart undesirable odors, tastes, or colors 5 the
of the water, endanger public health, or result in
n«!i?~M °£ nuisanc« sP«ci«a. The following EPA
publications, or any other sources deemed acceptable
by the Department, may be used as guidelines for
applying these Standards to discharges in the
(1) tfatsr Quality Criteria 1972 (March, 1973),
(2) Quality Criteria For Water (July, 1976),
Water
(EPA-MO/5-84-Q28
published in 1985.
Quality Criteria
through 5-84-033, and
Documents,
5-85-001),
substaECM <«c«Pt natural
sub»e i in co«bi««tion vith other
substances, result in concentrations of toxic
substances in the treated water that may be harmful to
health. The EPA Water Quality Si"L^
0/5^0^)15 - through ^ i3o-0?9)
in 1980, (or other sources 2 determined by
^ M I
determination of acceptable concentrations.
narr*tlv€s
«ceed natural
« Ecological
Florida/
Class I (PWS)
Aldrin * Dieldrin 0.003
Chlordane 0.01
(maximum ug/L)
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State and Vater Use
Criteria Values
Class IX
2-4 D
2,4,5-TP
DDT
Deacton
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion
Heptachlor
Lindane
Malathion
Methoxychlor
Mirex
Parathion*
Toxaphene
Aldrin * Dieldrin
Chlordane
DDT
Deaeton
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion
Heptachlor
Lindan«
Class III
Methoxyehlor
Mirex
Parathioa
Toxaphena
Aldrin + Dieldria
Chlordane
DDT
Deaeton
Endosulfan
Endria
Guthion
Heptaehlor
LindaiMt
Malathion
Methoxyehlor
Mirex
Parathion
Toxaphene
100
10
0.001
0.1
0.003
0.004
0.01
0.001
0.01
0.10
0.03
0.001
0.04
0.005
0.003
0.004
0.001
0.10
0.001
0.004
0.01
0.001
0.004
0.10
0.03
(maximum ug/L)
0.001
0.04
0.005
0.003
0.01 (fresh)
0.004 (marine)
0.001
0.10
0.003 (fresh)
0.001 (marine)
0.004
O.O:L
0.001
0.01 (fresh)
0.004 (marine)
0.10
0.03
0.001
0.04
0.005
(maximum ug/L)
All
Minima criteria for surface vaters: All surface
waters of the State shall at all times at all places
be fr
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State and Tatar Us*
Criteria Valui
All
man-induced non-thermal ' components of discharges
which, alone or in combination vith other substances
or in combination vith other components of discharges
(whether thermal or non-thermal);
Are acutely toxic; or
Are -present in concentrations which are carcinogenic,
mutagenie, or teratogenic to human beings or- to
significant, locally occurring, wildlife or aquatic
species; or
Pose a serious danger to the public health, safety, or
welfare.
General criteria for toxic substances (applied to all
surface waters except within zones of mixing):
Substances in concentrations which injure, are
chronically toxic to, or produce adverse physiological
or behavioral response in humans, animals, or plants -
none shall be present.
Georgia10
All (except mixing
zones)
Eadrin
Lindane
Methoxychlor
2,4-0
0.002 ug/L
0.08.ug/L
0.03 ug/L
100 ug/L
All
Drinking Waiter
Recreation, Fishing,
Propagation Of Fish,
Shellfish, Game And
Other Aquatic Life.
Agricultural
The criteria for these constituents are lower than
the conventional laboratory detection limits.
Toxic substances narrative: All waters shall be free
from 'toxic substances discharged from municipalities,
industries or other sources in amounts, concentrations
or combinations which are harmful to humans, animals
or aquatic life.
Toxic substances narrative: No material or substance
in such concentration that, after treatment, would
exceed the requirements o£ the Environmental
Protection Division and the latest edition of Federal
Drinking Water Standards.
Toxic wastes narrative: None in concencentrations
that would harm man, fish and game or other beneficial
aquatic life.
Toxic substance narrative: None in concentrations
that would interfere with or adversely affect uses for
general * agricultural purposes or would prevent fish
survival.
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State and ¥ater Oae
Criteria Values
Industrial
Navigation
Toxic substance narrative: Nona in concentrations
that would prevent fish survival or interfere vith
legitimate and beneficial industrial uses.
Toxic substance narrative:
that .. vould daaage vessels,
otherwise interfere vith coi
None in concentrations
prevent fish survival or.
cial navigation.
Hawaii
An
All
11
Not specified
Toxic substancos narrative: All vaters shall be free
of substances attributable to domestic, industrial, or
other controllable sources as follows: toxic
substances at levels or combinations sufficient to be
toxic or harmful to human, animal, plant or aquatic
life or in amounts sufficient to interfere vith any
beneficial use of the waiter.
As a minimum, a phytoplankton bioassay test or a
96-hour bioassay shall be required. Survival of test
organisms shall not be less than that in controls
which utilise appropriate experimental water.
Idaho12
Domestic Vater Supply
All
Bndrin 0.0002 (maximum mg/L)
Lindane 0.004
Me thoxychlor 0.100
Toxaphene 0.005
Trihalomethanes 0.100
2,4-D 0.100
2,4,5-TP Silvex 0.010
The following general water quality standards will
apply to waters of the State, both surface and
underground, in addition to the water quality
standards set forth for specifically classified
vaters. As a result of man-caused point of nonpoint
source discharge, waters of the State must not
contain:
.01 Hazardous Materials: (see Section 01-2003,19.) in
concentrations found 'to be of public health
significance or to adversely affect designated or
protected beneficial uses.
.02 Deleterious Materials: (see Section 01-2003,07.)
in concentrations that impair designated or protected
beneficial uses vithout being hazardous.
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State, and Water Ham
Criteria Values
General Usa
Toxic substances narrative: Any substance toxic to
aquatic life shall not exceed one-tenth of the 96-hour
median tolerance limit (96-hr. TL ) for native fish or
essential fish food organisms, except for USEPA
registered pesticides approved for aquatic application
and applied pursuant to specified conditions.
Applications of aquatic pesticides must be in
accordant vith the lavs, regulations and guidelines
.of all state and federal agencies authorized by lav to
regulate, use or supervise pesticide applications,
along which are included the Illinios Department of
Agriculture and the Illinios Department of Public
Health pursuant to 111. Rev. Stat. 1979 ch. 5, pars.
226 through 267; and the Department of Energy and
Natural Resources pursuant to 111. Rev. Stat. 1979 ch.
96 1/2, par. 7403.
No aquatic pesticide shall be applied to vaters
affecting public or food processing water supplies
unless a permit to apply the pesticide has been
obtained from the Agency. All permits shall be issued
so- as not to cause a violation of the Act or of any of
th* Board's- rules or regulations. Tb aid applicators
in determining their responsibilities under this
subsection, a list of vaters affecting public water
supplies will be published and maintained by the
Agency's Division of Public Water Supplies.
Public and Pood
Processing Water
Supply
Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Insecticides
Aldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Dieldrin
Bndrin
Heptachlor
Heptachlor Epoxide
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Toxaphi
0.001
0.003
0.050
0.001
0.0002
0.0001
0.0001
0.004
0.1
0.005
Organophoshate Insecticides
Parathion • 0.1
Chlorophenoxy Herbicides
2,4-DoTT"
2,4,5-TP 0.01
(maximum og/L)
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Criteria Values
Indiana
All
All
Aquatic Life
Potable Supply
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: All waters at all times
and at all places, including the mixing zone , shall
•eet • the mininum conditions of being free from
substances attributable 'to municipal, industrial,
agricultural, and other land use practices or other
discharges which are in aaounts sufficient to injure,
be acutely toxic to or otherwise produce serious
adverse physiological responses in humans, animals,
aquatic life or plants. As a guideline, toxic
substances should be limited to the 96-hour median
lethal concentration (LC50) for biota significant to
the indigenous aquatic community or other
representative organisms.
At all times, all waters outside of mixing zones shall
be free of substances in concentrations which on the
basis of available scientific data are belived to be
sufficient to injure, be chronically toxic to, or be
carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic to humans,
animals, aquatic life, or plants.
Toxic substances narrative: concentrations shall not
exceed one-tenth of the 96-hour median lethal
concentration for important indigenous aquatic species
or other representative organisms.
Contaminants which are knovn to be bioaccumulative and
toxic, on the basis of available scientific data,
shall net be present in concentrations which would
result in the bioaccumulation or bioconcentration of
such contaminants or their degradation products in
important indigenous aquatic species to Federal Food
and Drug Administration action levels or levels
producing deleterious effacts which are prohibited.
Chemical substances narrative: The chemical
constituents in the waters shall not be present after
conventional treatment in such levels as to prevent
meeting the Drinking Witter Standards adopted by the
Board.
Lake Michigan and
Contiguous Harbor
Areas
Toxic substances narrative: Concentrations shall not
exceed one-tenth of the 96-hour median lethal
concentration (LC-Q) for important indigenous aquatic
species and those artificially propagated by the
Indiana Department of Natural Resources. More
stringent application factors shall be used when
justified on the basis of available evidence and
approved by the Board after public notice and
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State ami Water Use
Grand Calumet River
Criteria Values
opportunity for a hearing.
Concentrations of organic contaminants vhich can be
demonstrated to be persistent, to have a tendency to
bioconcentrate in the- aquatic biota, and are likely to
be- toxic on the basis of available scientific
evidence, shall be limited as determined by the
Commissioner after public notice and an opportunity
for a hearing.
Toxic substances narrative: Concentrations shall not
exceed one-tenth of the 96-hour median lethal
concentration (LC-0) for important indigenous aquatic
species. More stringent application factors shall be
used, when justified, on tfa* basis of available
scientific evidence and approved by the Board after
public notice and opportunity for a hearing.
Organic contaminants which can be demonstrated to be
persistent, to have a tendency to bioconcentrate in
the aquatic biota, and are likely to be toxic on the
basis of available scientific evidence, shall not be
present in concentrations which would result in the
bioaccumulation or bioconcantration of such
contaminants or their degradation products in
important indigenous aquatic species to Federal Pood
and Drug Administration action levels or levels which
on the basis of available scientific evidence are
believed to be sufficient to injure, be chronically
toxic to, or be carcinogenic, mutagenic, or
teratogenic to humans, animals, or plants.
Iowa
15
Wildlife, Pish, Aquatic Toxic substances narrative: All substances toxic or
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State and Tatar Pac
.16
All
All
Aquatic Life
Criteria Values
Not specified
General criteria: All surface vaters shall be free,
at- all times, from the harmful effects of substances
that originate froa artificial sources and that
produce any public health hazards or nuisance
conditions* or impairment of uses. The harmful
effects may result from any concentration of a
substance that causes toxic effects, alone or in
combination with other artificial or natural
substances* Such substances shall be limited to
concentrations in the receiving vater that will not be
harmful to human, animal, or plant life.
Toxic substances narrative:
(ii) The vaters of the state shall not be toxic as a
result of the effects of substances originating from
artificial sources, whether alone or. in combination
with other artificial or natural substances.
(iii) Criteria for the protection of predators, in
terma of toxic levels in fish, published in "Vater
Quality Criteria" (National Academy of Engineering,
1973), which is hereby adopted by reference, shall be
used . as guidelines in •assessing toxicity due to
bioaceunulation*
* *
(iv) Then criteria for single compounds have not been
published or are incomplete, or when complex mixtures
can result in interactions among substances, the
department shall utilize laboratory and field
bioassessment methods and procedures to establish
site-specific water quality criteria.
Aldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Zndrin
Heptaehlor
Lindaae
Methoxychlor
ParathioE
Toxaphene
0.003
0.0043
0.001
0.0019
0.056
0.0023
0.0038
0.08
0.03
0.04
0.013
(maximum ug/L)
Domestic Vater Supply
Any concentration of a substance from artificial
sources that, alone or in combination with other
artificial or natural substances, causes toxic effects
on huaans shall be limited to non-harmful
concentrations.
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Stato and Vmter Us*
Criteria Value*
Consumptive Recreation Substances that can bioaccumulate through
bioeoncantratlon or biomagnification to toxic levels
in aquatic life, semiaquatic life or wildlife consumed
by huaans shall be limited in surface waters to
concentrations that vill result in no harm to humans
upon consumption. FDA action levels defined in K.A.R.
28-16-28b(b)(19) for toxic substances in fish flesh,
vhich .are hereby adopted by reference, shall be used
as guidelines to determine protection of this use.
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Kentucky
All
Varawater Aquatic
Habitat, Coldvater
Aquatic Habitat
Mixing Zones
Surface waters shall not be aesthetically or otherwise
degraded by substances that injure, be toxic to or
produce adverse physiological or behavioral responses
in humans, animals, fish, and other aquatic life.
Chlordane 0.0043 ug/L
Toxic substances narrative:
1. The allowable instream concentration of toxic
substances which are noncumulative or nonpersistent
(half-life of less than 96 hours) shall not exceed 0.1
of the 96-hour median lethal concentration (LC-/0 of a
representative indigenous aquatic 9rganism(s).
2. The allowable instream concentration of toxic
substances which are bio-accumulative or persistent,
including pesticides, when not specified elsewhere in
this section, shall not exceed 0.01 of the 96-hour
median lethal concentration (LCen) of a representative
indigenous aquatic organism(s).
3. Where specific application factors have been
determined for a toxic substance such as an
acute/chronic ratio or water effect ratio, they may be
used instead of the 0.1 and 0.01 factors listed in
this subsection upon approval by the cabinet.
Toxic substances narrative: Concentration of toxic
substances which exceed the ninety-six (96) hour LC50
tests for representative indigenous aquatic organisms
are not allowed at any point within the mixing zone.
A zone of initial dilution may be assigned on a
case-by-case .basis at" the discretion of the cabinet.
Concentrations of toxic substances which exceed
one-third (1/3) the ninety-six (96) hour LC50 or other
appropriate LC50 tests for representative indigenous
aquatic organisms are to be met at the edge of the
zone of initial dilution. Chronic criteria for the
protecton of aquatic life are to be met at the edge of
the allowable mixing zone.
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State and Water
Criteria Values
Louisiana
Fresh Vater
Marine Water
Public Water Supply
Aesthetics
All
DDT
TDE(DDD)
DDE
Endrin
Toxaphene
Dieldrin .
Aldrin
Chlordane
DDT
TDE(DDD)
ODE
Endrin
Toxaphene
Dieldrin
Aldrin
Chlordane
DDT
Endrin
Toxaphene
Dieldrin
Aldrin
Chlordane
2,4-0
2,4,5-TP
(Silvex)
* The ambient
exceeded at any
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Criteria V&lu4
refractory substances subject to very United or no
biodegradation and/or detoxification and subject to
food chain bioaccumulation; they include but are not
United to pesticides, PCB's and heavy metals that are
designated by EPA as priority pollutants.
Concentrations of non-persistent, biodegradable toxic
substances for vhich no numerical criteria are given
in the standards, shall not exceed the 96-hour LC50/10
(one-tenth of the 96-hour LC50), Bioassay techniques
comparable with those given in the latest edition of
Standards Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewatar will be used in evaluating toxicity using
specific methods, dilutions, and species of aquatic
animals best suited to the area of concern.
Maine
All
All
19
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: no waste substances
containing chemical constituents which would be
harmful to humans, animals or aquatic life.
Maryland'
•
All
All
20
Aldrin/Dieldrin
DOT
Endrin
Toxaphene
0.003
0.001
0.004
0.005
(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative: The waters of this State
may not be polluted by high-temperature, toxic,
corrosive, or other deleterious substances
attributable to sewage, industrial waste, or other
vast* in concentrations or combinations which:
(a) interfere directly or indirectly with water uses;
or
(b) are harmful to human, animal, plant or aquatic
life.
Toxic materials criteria are established to protect
freshwater aquatic life, saltwater aquatic life or
h'uman health.
Massachusetts
All
21
Not sp«ci£ied
For each class, the most sensitive beneficial uses are
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State and ¥ater Dam
All
Criteria Values
identified and ninioua criteria for water quality in
the water column are established. In interpreting
and applying the minimum criteria in 314 CMR 4.03(4),
the Division shall consider local conditions
including, but not liaited to:
(a) the characteristics of the biological community;
(b) temperature, weather, flow, and physical and
chemical characteristics; and
(c) synergistic and antagonistic
combinations of pollutants.
effects of
The Division will use the EPA criteria established
pursuant to Section 304(a)(I) of the Federal Act, as
guidance in establishing case-by-case discharge limits
for pollutants not specifically listed in these
standards but included under the heading "Other
Constituents" in 310 CMR 4.03(4), for identifying
bioassay application factors and for interpretations
of narrative criteria. There the minimum criteria
specifically listed by the Division in this part
differ from those contained in the federal criteria,
the provisions of the specifically listed criteria in
these standards shall apply.
Toxic substances narrative: Waters shall be free from
pollutants in concentrations or combinations that:
(a) exceed the recommended
sensitive receiving water use;
limits on the most
(b) injure, are toxic to, or produce adverse
physiological or behavioral responses in humans or
aquatic life? or
(c) exceed site-specific safe exposure
determined by bioassay using sensitive species.
levels
Michigan
All
All •
22
Not specified
R 323.1057 Toxic substances narrative: Rule 57. -
(1) Toxic substances shall not be present in the
waters of the state at levels which are or may become
injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare;
plant and animal life; or the designated uses of those
waters. Allowable levels of toxic substances shall be
determined by. the commission using appropriate
scientific data.
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State and Bater Use
Criteria Values
(2) All of the following provisions apply for purposes
of developing allowable levels of toxic substances in
the surface waters of the state applicable to point
source discharge permits issued pursuant to Act No.
?,:L ?£ the Public Acts of 1929' as amended, being
§323.1- et seq. of the Michigan Comp.iled Laws:
(a) Water quality-based effluent liaits developed
pursuant to this subrule shall be used only when they
are aore restrictive than technology-based limitations
required pursuant to R 323.2137 and R 323.2140.
(b) The toxic substances to which this subrule shall
apply ar« those on the 1984 Michigan critical
materials register established pursuant to Act No. 245
of the Public Acts of 1929, as amended, being §323.1
et seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws; the priority
pollutants and hazardous chemicals in 40 C.F.R.
$122.21, appendix D (1983); and any other toxic
substances as the commission may determine are of
concern at a specific site.
(c) Allowable levels of toxic substances in th«
surface water after a discharge is mixed with the
receiving stream volume specified in R'323.1082 shall
b« determined by applying an adequate-margin of safety
to the MATC, NOABL, or other appropriate effect end
points, based on knowledge of the behavior of the
toxic substance, characteristics of the. receiving
water, and the organisms to be protected.
(d) In addition to restrictions pursuant to
subdivision (c) of this subrule, a discharge of
carcinogens, not determined to cause cancer by a
threshold mechanism, shall not create a level of risk
to the public health greater than 1 in 100,000 in the
surface water after mixing with the allowable
receiving stream volume specified in R 323.1082. The
commission may require a greater degree of protection
pursuant to R 323.1098 where achievable through
utilization of control measures already in place or
where otherwise determined necessary.
(«) Guidelines shall be adopted pursuant to Act No.
?2? £ th* Public Acts of 1969» as amended, being
$24.201 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws, setting
forth procedures to be used by staff in the
development of recommendations to the commission on
allowable levels of toxic substances and the minimum
data necessary to derive such recommendations. The
comaission may require the applicant to provide the
minimum data when otherwise not available for
derivation of the allowable levels of toxic
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State and Water Uae
Criteria Valuas
substances.
(f) For existing discharges, the commision may issue
a scheduled abatement perait pursuant to R 323.2145
upon a determination by the cooutisssion that the
applicant has demonstrated that each of the following
conditions is net:
(i) Immediate attainment of the allowable level of a
toxic substance is not economically or technically
feasible.
(ii) Ho prudent alternative exists.
(iii) During the period of scheduled abatement,, the
permitted discharge will be consistent with the
protection of the public health, safety, and welfare.
(iv) Reasonable progress will be made toward
compliance with this rule over the term of the permit,
as provided for in a schedule in the permit.
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Minnesota'
All
All
Agriculture and Wild-
life (Class B)
Limited Resource Value
Waters
For contaminants other than heat, the 96-hour median
tolerance limit for indigenous fish and fish food
organisms should not be exceeded at any point in the
mixing zone.
Toxic substances narrative: No discharges at levels
acutely toxic to humans or other animals or plant
life, or directly damaging to real property.
Toxic substances narrative: None at levels harmful
either directly or indirectly.
unspecified substances shall not be allowed in such
quantities or concentrations that will impair the
specified uses.
Mississippi'
All
All
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: Waters shall be free from
substances attributable to municipal, industrial,
agricultural or other discharges in concentrations or
combinations which are toxic or harmful to humans,
animals or aquatic life.
There shall be no substances added, whether alone or
in combination with othor substances, that will impair
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Strata and Water Usm
Criteria Values
Missouri25
Aquatic Life
Drinking Water Supply
the use of waters fro« that which it is classified.
The concentration of toxic pollutants shall not exceed
one-tenth (l/10th) of the 96-hour median tolerance
limit based on available data. The concentration of
toxic pollutants that are cumulative and/or persistent
may be further limited on a case-by-case basis, where
such data is available.
Available references to be used in determining
toxicity .limitations shall include, but not be limited
to Quality Criteria for Water (Section 304(a))!l
Federal Regulations under Section 307, and Federal
Regulations under Section 1412 of the Public Health
Service Act as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act
(Pub. L. 93-523). The use of such information should
b« liaitod to that part applicable to the indigenous
aquatic community found in the State of Mississippi.
DOT
Endrin
Aldrin
Oieldria
.Heptachlor •
Methoxychlor
Mirex
Toxaphene
Lindane(gamma-BHC)
Chlordane
Benzidine
Oioxin
Endrin
Aldrin
Dieldrin
Eeptachlor
Toxaphone
Liadane(gasaa-BHC)
Chlordane
Benzidine
Dioxin
Pentachlorophenol
.000024 (max cone, in ug/L)
.0023
.000079
.000076
.0038
.03
.001
.000073
.062
.00048
.00053
.000014 ng/L
1.0 (max cone, in ug/L)
.000074
.000071
.00028
.00071
.0022
.00046
.00120
.000130 ng/L
pH dependent, see table below:
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
The waters of the state shall be fre« from substances
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Stax« and
Oa
Gritaria Values
or conditions that hav«
animal, or aquatic lif«.
a harmful effect on human,
Classified Waters
Persistent bioaccumulative, man-made toxic substances
are not allowed in the waters .of the state. These
substances include, but are not limited to: PCB's,
DDT, endrin, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor,
methoxychlor, mirex, toxaphene, lindane (gamma BHC),
chlordane, benzidinc, dioxin (2,3»4,5,TCDD) and
alpha-; beta; delta BEC.
Toxic substances narrative: Water contaminants shall
not cause the limits in Table A for the toxic form of
metals and other toxic substances to be exceeded.
Concentrations of such substances in bottom sediments
or waters shall not harm benthic organisms and shall
not accumulate through the food chain in harmful
concentrations, nor shall Food and Drug Administration
maximum fish tissue levels for fish consumption be
exceeded. More stringent criteria may be imposed if
there is evidence of additive or°synergistic effects.
Effluent toxicity studies or site-specific instream
biological studies performed, recognized, or
sanctioned by the commission may be used to develop
alternative- effluent limits not based on Table A
values.
Persistent, bioaceumulative, man-made toxic substances
are not allowed in the waters of the state.
Other potentially toxic substances for vhich
sufficient toxicity data are not available may not be
released to waters of the state until safe levels are
demonstrated through adequate bioassay studies.
Montana26
All
Vater Supply
Class A - closod
Vater Supply (Classes
A-l, B-l, B-2, B-3)
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: No increases of toxic or
other deleterious substances, pesticides and organic
and inorganic materials including heavy metals, above
naturally occurring concontrations, are allowed.
Toxic substances narrative:
Concentrations of toxic or other deleterious
substances which would remain in the water after
conventional water treatment must not exceed the
maximum contaminant levels set forth in the 1975
National Interim Primary Drinking Vater Standards (40
CFR Part 141). The maximum allowable concentrations
of toxic or deleterious substances also must not
exceed acute or chronic problem levels as revealed by
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Criteria Values
Class C-3
Classes C-l and C-2
Class E
All Classes (except A-
Closed and E)
Nebraska
All
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bioassay or other Methods. The values listed in EPA
Water Quality Criteria documents (Federal Register
79318 79379?°%h ?l' J^**! Novenber ™> "80, P**«
79318-79379) shall be used as a guide to determine
problem levels unless local conditions make these
7?ffoJ??PPr2!;iat?* 4 In accordanc« vith section
73-5-306(1), MCA, it is not necessary that wastes be
treated to a purer condition than the natural
condition of the receiving water. The board hereby
adopts and incorporates by reference "EPA Water
Quality Criteria documents (Federal Register Vol. 45,
Ho. 231, Friday, November 28, 1980, nacres
79318-79379)% which set forth water quality cri?efi!
for toxic or other deleterious substances. Copies of
this document may be obtained from the Water Quality
Bureau, Department of Health and Environmental
Sciences, Cogswell Building, Capitol Station, Helena,
Montana, 56920.
Same as above
Toxic.substances narrative:
Concentrations of toxic or other deleterious substances
Bust not exceed levels which render the waters harmful.
detrimental or injurious to public health.
Toxic substances narrative: Concentrations of toxic
or deleterious substances, pathogens, pesticides and
organic and inorganic materials including heavy
jwtals, mist be less than those demonstrated to be
deleterious to livestock or plants or to humans who
•ay consume such livestock or plants or to adversely
affect other indicated uses.
The maximum allowable concentrations of toxic or
deleterious substances also must not exceed acute or
chronic problem levels as revealed by bioassay or
other methods. The values listed in EPA Water Quality
Criteria documents (Federal Register Vol. 45, No. 231,
Friday, November 28, 1980, pages 79318 - 79379) shall
be used as a guide to determine problem levels unless
local conditions make these values inappropriate. In
accordance with section 75-5-306(1), MCA, it is not
necessary that wastes be.treated to a purer condition
than the natural condition of the receiving water.
Endrin
Lindane
Methoxyehlor
Toxaphene
2,4-0
0.0002
0.004
0.1
0.005
0.1
(Maximum in mg/L)
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Criteria Values
Aquatic Life
Public Drinking Water
Agricultural
Aesthetics and Public
Health
2,4,5-TP Silvex 0.01
Toxic substances narrative: ' Surface waters of the
State shall be free from toxic substances in toxic
amounts. Ho toxic substances alone or in combination
vith other substances in concentrations rendering the
receiving vater unsafe or unsuitable for aquatic life
vill be allowed. (In implementing these criteria, the
Department vill follow procedures outlines in the
State's Continuing Planning Process which comply with
the federal water quality standards, 40 C.F.R. §131.11
(1986)).
Toxic substances narrative: Wastes or toxic
substances introduced directly or indirectly by human
activity in concentrations that would degrade the use
(i.e., would produce undesirable physiological affects
in humans) shall not be allowed.
Toxic substances narrative: Wastes or toxic
substances introduced directly or indirectly by human
activity in concentrations that would degrade the use
(i.e., would produce undesirable physiological effects
in crops os livestock) shall not be allowed.
Surface waters shaljL be free of radionuclides or toxic
substances in concentrations or combinations which may
produce undesirable physiological responses in humans.
Nevada
All
28
Aldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Demeton
Dieldrin
Endoiiulfan
Bndria
Guthion
Heptaehlor
Lindane
Malathion
Methoxychlor
Mircx
Parathion
2,4-D
Silvex
Toxaphene
0.000003
0.00001
0.000001
0.0001
0.000003
0.000003
0.000004
0.00001
0.000001
0.00001
0.0001
0.00003
0.000001
0.000004
0.1
0.01
0.000005
(Maximum in mg/L)
All
Toxic substances narrative: Waters must be free from
toxic substances attributable to domestic or
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Criteria Values
industrial, vaste or other controllable sources at
levels or coabinations sufficient to be toxic to
human, animal, plant or aquatic life or in amounts
sufficient to interfere vith any beneficial use of. the
Drinking Water Supply
(vith treatment by
disinfection only)
Suitable For Aquatic
Life Habitat, Wildlife
Propagation, Agricul-
tural, Recruition,
Boating, Esthetics
(Class A)
The presence of toxic materials in a water must be
evaluated by use of a 96-hour bioassay. Survival of
f«L ^rJ3"8^?^ n0t * l€SS Chan tfaat in cont"l
tests vnien utilize appropriate control vater. The
test organisms and control vater must be specified by
the department. In addition, acute bioassays may be
required to determine effluent limitations and the
exact test method to be used must be defined by the
department. Failure to determine presence of toxic
materials by these methods shall not preclude
determination of excessive levels of toxic materials
on the basis of other criteria or methods. Wastes from
municipal, industrial or other controllable sources
containing arsenic, barium, boron, cadmium, chromium,
cyanide, fluoride, lead, selenium, silver, copper and
zinc that arc reasonably amenable to treatment or
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Criteria Values
Wildlife Propagation,
Recreation, Esthetics
and Industrial (Class C)
Boating and Esthetics,
Aquatic Life, Wildlife
Propagation, Agricul-
tural and Industrial
(except for Food
Processing Purposes)
(Class D)
Toxic substances narrative: Only such amounts as vill
not impair receiving waters for any beneficial use
established for this class.
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New Hampshire
An
Water Supply
(Class A)
All Other Uses
(Classes B and C)
Fish Life
All
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: No potentially toxic
substances unless naturally occurring.
Toxic substances narrative: No potentially toxic
substances in toxic concentrations or combinations.
Toxic substances narrative: All surface waters of the
state shall be free from chemicals and other materials
and conditions inimical to fish life or to maintenance
of fish life. •
Substances potentially toxic are evaluated in
accordance vith EPA's published water quality criteria
for 64 toxic substances dated November 1980. Toxic
limits are to be set utilizing bioassay procedures as
outlined in CFR Vol. 45, No. 231, November 28, 1980.
When establishing limits on toxic substances for the
protection of aquatic life, "Appendix B - Guidelines
for Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the Protection
of Aquatic Life and Its Uses," CFR Vol. 45. No. 231,
November 28, 1980, will be utilized. Bioassay
procedures and analysis shall be consistent vith
'Methods for Measuring Acute Toxicity of Effluents
(third edition)' published by EPA, or equivalent
protocol as approved by the Commission.
Bioassay procedures and application factors used in
establishing limits on toxic substances shall, as a
minimus, be no less rigorous than the recommendations
for bioassays and application factors contained in the
National Technical Advisory Committee's report to the
Secretary of the Interior on WATER QUALITY CRITERIA,
April 1, 1968 or latest revision thereof.
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State and Vater Use
Nev Jersey30
An
Fff-1 Waters
PL Waters
FV-2 Waters
SB and SC Waters
Criteria Values
Aldrin/Dialdrin
DDT and Metabolites
Endrin
0.0019
0.0010
0.0023
(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative: Toxic substances in
waters of the State shall not be at levels that are
toxic to humans or the aquatic biota, or that
bioaccumuiate in the aquatic biota so as to render
them unfit for human consumption.
Surface water quality criteria shall be maintained as
to quality in their natural state.
Surface water quality criteria shall be maintained as
to quality in their existing state or that quality
necessary to attain or protect the designated uses,
whichever is more stringent.
Chlordane
Endosulfan
Heptachlor
Lindane
Toxaphene
0.0043
0.056
0.0038
0.080
0.013
(maximum ug/L)
None vhich vould cause standards for drinking vater to
De exceeded after appropriate treataent.
Chlordane
Endosulfan
Heptachlor
Lindane
Toxaphene
0.0040
0.0087
0.0036
0.004
0.005
(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative: None, either alone or in
combination vita other substances, in such
concentrations as to affect humans or be detrimental
SLJ?" "K?*1 a"u*tic biot*» produce undesirable
•W1* llf«» °* vhich vould render the waters
unsuitable for the designated uses. *»««
Toxic substances shall not be. present in
concentrations that cause acute or chronic toxicity to
aquatic biota, or bioaccuwilate within an organism to
concentrations that exert a toxic effect on that
organism or render it unfit for consumption.
The concentrations of nonpersistent toxic substances
,n nJf!* ftat«'s waters shall not exceed one-tventieth
(0.05) of the acute definitive LC50 or EC50 value, as
determined by appropriate bioassays conducted in
accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:18.
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and
Zones 1C-6
Her Mexico
An
'AII '
31
Criteria Valuta
The concentrations of persistent toxic substances in
the State's water* shall not exceed one-hundredth
(0.01) of the acute definitive LC50 or EC50 value, as
determined by appropriate bioassays conducted in
accordance vith N.J.A.C. 7:18.
General criteria narrative: The waters shall not
contain substances attributable to municipal,
industrial, or other discharges in concentrations or
amounts sufficient to preclude the specified water
uses to b« protected. Within this requirement the
waters shall be substantially free from substances in
concentrations or combinations which are toxic or
harmful to human, animal,' plant, or aquatic life, or
that produce color, taste, or odor in the water, or
that taint fish or shellfish flesh.
In no case shall concentrations of substances exceed
those values given for rejection of water supplies in
the United States Public Health Service Drinking Water
Standards.
Not specified
Toxic .substances • narrative: Toxic substances such
as, but not limited to , pesticides, herbicides, heavy
metals, and organics, shall not be present in
receiving waters in concentrations which will change
the ecological conditions of receiving waters to an
extent detrimental to man ore other organisms of
direct or indirect commercial, recreation, or
aesthetic value. Toxicities of substances in
receiving waters will be determined by appropriate
bioassay techniques, or other acceptable means, for
the particular form of aquatic life which is to be
preserved vith the concentrations of toxic substances
not to exceed 52 of the LC-50 provided that: toxic
substances which, through uptake in the aquatic food
chaiffl and/or storage in plant and animal tissues, can
be magnified to levels which are toxic to man or other
organisms, shall not be present in concentrations
vnicli result in this biological magnification or
exceed 12 of the LC-50. Waters designated for use as
domestic water supplies shall not contain substances
in concentrations tat exceed drinking water standards
set forth in Section 202. B of the New Mexico
Regulations Governing Water Supplies.
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Stata and Water Use
.Nev York32
Classes AA, AA-s,
A, A-s (Human)
Classes AA, AA-s,
A, A-s (Aquatic)
Classes B, C
Class D
Classes SA, SB, SC
Criteria Values
Aidicarb 7
2,4-D " 100
DDT, DDD, DDE 0.01
Endrin 0.2
Heptaehlor and 0.009
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Methoxyehlor 35
Silvex (2,4,5-TP) 10
Aldrin+Dieldrin 0.001
DDT, DDO, DDE 0.001
Deaeton 0.1
Endosul£an 0.009
Endrin 0.002
Heptaehlor and 0.001
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Malathion 0.1
Methoxyehlor 0.03
Mirex 0.001
Parathion and 0.008
Methyl Parathion
Toxaphene 0.005
Aldrin+Dieldrin 0.001
DOT, DDD, DDE 0.001
Deaeton 0.1
Endosulfaa 0.009
Endrin 0.002
Heptaehlor and ' 0.001
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Malathion 0.1
Methoxyehlor 0.03
Mirex 0.001
Toxaphene 0.005
Aldrin+Dieldrin 0.001
DOT, DDO, DOS 0.001
Endosulfaa 0.22
Endrin 0.002
Heptaehlor and 0.001
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Mirex 0.001
Toxaphene 1.6
Aldrin+Dieldrin 0.001
DDT, DDD, ODE 0.001
Deaeton 0.1
Endosulfan 0.001
Endrin 0.002
Heptaehlor and 0.001
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Malathion 0.1
(maximum ug/L)
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State and¥fttsrUse
Criteria Values
Class SD
Fresh Surface Vaters
Classes SA, SB, SC
Class SD
Class A
Class I
Class IX
Methoxychlor 0.03
Mirax 0.001
Toxaphene 0.005
Aldrin+Dieldrin 0.001
DOT, ODD, DOE 0.001
Endosulfan 0.034
Bndrin 0.002
Heptacnlor and '0*001
Heptachlor Epoxide
Toxic substances narrative: None in amounts that vill
be injurious to fishlilfe or which in any manner shall
adversely affect the flavor, color or odor thereof, or
impair the vaters for any best usage as determined for
the specific vaters which are assigned to each class.
Toxic substances narrative: Hone in amounts that will
interfere with use for primary contact recreation or
that vill be injurious to edible fish or shellfish or
the culture or propagation thereof,, or which in any
manner shall adversely affect the flavor, color, odor
or sanitary condition thereof or impair the waters for
any best usage as determined for the specific waters
which are assigned to each class.
Toxic substances narrative: None alone or in
combination with other substances or wastes in
sufficient amounts to prevent survival of fish life or
impair the vaters for any other best usage as
determined for the specific vaters which are assigned
to this class.
Toxic substances narrative: None in amounts that will
interfere with use for primary contact recreation or
that vill be injurious to the growth and propagation
of fish* os which in any manner shall adversely affect
the flavor, color, or odor thereof or impair the
vaters for any other best usage as determined for the
specific vaters which are assigned to this class.
Toxic substances narrative: None in amounts that will
interfere with use for secondary contact recreation or
that vill be injurious to edible fish or shellfish or
the culture or propagation thereof, or which in any
manner shall adversely affect the flavor, color, odor
or sanitary condition thereof or impair the waters for
any best usage as determined for the specific waters
which are assigned to this class.
Toxic substances narrative: None alone or in
combination with other substances or wastes in
sufficient amounts to be injurious to edible fish and
shellfish* or the culture or propagation thereof, or
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State mnd ¥*ter Use
Criteria Values
North Carolia*33
Fresh Surfacit Waters
Classes VS~1» ¥S-2,
•WS-3 "
which shall in any manner affect the flavor, color,
odor or sanitary condition of such fish or shellfish
so as to injuriously affect the sale thereof, or which
shall cause any injury to the public and private
shellfisheries of this State.
Aldrin
Chlordano
DDT
Deaeton
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion
Heptachlor
Lindane
Methoxyehlor
Mirex
Parathion
Toxaphenc
2,4-D .
2,4,3-TP
(Silvex)
0.002
0.004
0.001
0.1
0.002
0.05
0.002
0.01
0.004
0.01
0.03
0.001
0.04
0.013
100
10
(maximum ug/L)
.(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative [Rule .0211(b)(3)(L)]:
Only such amounts, whether alone or in combination
with other substances or wastes as will not render the
waters injurious to public health, secondary
recreation, or to aquatic life and wildlife (either
through chronic or . acute exposure or through
bioaceuBulation), or impair the waters for any
designated uses; any toxic substance or complex waste
will be considered acutely toxic at instream waste
concentrations greater than one third of the 96-hour
LCSO value} acceptable levels of chronic exposure may
be determined by test procedures deemed appropriate by
the director.
Action Levels for toxic substances [Rule .0211(b)(4)]:
If the levels of any of the substances listed in this
Paragraph (which are generally not bioaccumulative and
have variable toxicity to aquatic life because of
chemical fora, solubility, stream characteristics
and/or associated waste chatacteristics) are
determined by the waste load allocation to be exceeded
in a receiving water by a discharge under the
specified lov flow criterion for toxic substances
(Rule .0206), the discharger will be required to
monitor th« chemical and/or biological effects of the
discharge as part of the NPDBS permit; efforts shall
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Scats and Water Use
Criteria Values
Tidal Salt Waters
be made by all dischargers to reduce or eliminate
these substances from their effluents; after receiving
such monitoring data for discharge, the substance will
be liaited to the level listed in this Paragraph or an
appropriate toxicity limit vill be set as determined
using the requirements of Rule .0208(a).
Aldrin
Chlordane
DOT
DeMton
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion
Heptachlor
Lindane
Hethoxychlor
Mirex
Parathion
Toxaphene
0.
0.
0.
0.003
0.004
0.001
,1
.002
.009
0.002
0.01
0.004
0.004
0.03
0.001
0.04
0.07
(maximum ug/L)
All
Toxic substances narrative [Rule .0212(b)(3)(L)]:
Only such amounts, whether alone or in combination
vitfe other substances or wastes as vill not render the
. waters injurious to aquatic life-.and wildlife, or
impair th« waters for aay designated uses.
Action Levels for toxic substances [Rule .0212(1))(4)]:
Same as for Fresh Surface Vaters.
Toxic substance narrative[Rule .0208(a)]: The
concentration of toxic substances in the receiving
water, (either alone or in combination, when
affirmatively demonstrated to be non-bioaccumulative)
when not specified elsevhere in this Section, shall
not exceed the concentration specified by the fraction
of th« 96-hour LC50 value which predicts a no effect
chronic level (as determined by the use of established
acute/chronic ratios). If an acceptable acute/chronic
ratio is not available, then that toxic substance
shall not exceed one-one hundredth (0.01) of the
96-hour LC50 or if it is affirmatively demonstrated
that a toxic substance has a half-life of less than 96
hours or is not bioaccumulative, the maximum
concentration shall, not exceed one-twentieth (O.OS) of
the 96-hour LCSO. If it is affirmatively demonstrated
that the standard for a particular toxic substance as
specified in Rule .0211 or .0212 of this Section is
inappropriate for a specific stream segment, the
commission may revise the applicable standard on a
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State and later Use
Criteria Values
case-by-case basis in accordance vith the provisions
of Section 143-214.1 of the General Statutes of North
Carolina.
North Dakota
All
34
Toxic .substances narrative: Free from substances
attributable to municipal, industrial, or other
discharges or agricultural practices in concentrations
or combinations which are toxic or harmful to human,
animal, plant or resident aquatic biota.
Mixing zones narrative: The 96-hour LC 50 for
indigenous or resident fish and fish food organisms
shall not be exceeded at any point in the mixing zone.
Sampling and testing narrative: Bioassay tests shall
be performed in accordance vith procedures outlined in
the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater", published by the
American public health association, or in accordance
vith tests or analytical procedures that have been
found to be equal or more applicable by the department
or the environmental protection agency. Bioassay
studies shall be made using a sensitive resident
species.
Ohio35
Public Vater Supply
Lake Erie
Aquatic Life Habitat
Lake Erie
Aldrin0
Chlordane
2,4-D .
2,4.5-TPb
DOT6 .
Dieldrin0
Sndosulfan
Sndrin .
Heptaehlor
Heptaehlor Epoxide
Lindane
Methoxyehlor
Toxapheno
0.000074°
0.00046°
100.0
10.0
0.000024°
0.000071°
74
1.0
0.00028°
o.i '
0.019°
100.0
0.00071°
(maximum ug/L)
Concentrations for Aquatic Life Habitat are 30-day
average criteria. All concentrations are expressed in
Ug/L.
Aldrin • 0.01
Benzene Hexachloride 0.1
Chlordane 0.01
DDI° 0.001
Demetoa 0.1
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State and VaterUs*
Criteria Values
All
All
Lake Erie
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion .
Heptaehlor
Llndane
Malathion
Methoxyehlor
Mirex
Paratbion
Toxaphene
0.005
0.003
0.002
0.005
0.001
0.01
0.1
0.005
0.001
0.008
0.005
Pesticides are not to exeeed the concentrations in
this table, or the Safe Drinking Water Act, whichever
is more stringent.
Use has been banned.
e For protection of human health froa the potential
carcinogenic effects, at a 10 incremental increase
of cancer risk over the lifetime, due to exposure
through ingestion of contaminated vater and
contaminated aquatic organisms.
General .narrative: Free from substances entering the
vaters . as a result of human activities in
concentrations that are toxic or harmful te human,
animal or aquatic life and/or are rapidly lethal in
the mixing zone.
Antidegradation policy: Present ambient vater quality
in state resource vaters vill not be degraded for all
substances determined to be toxic or to interfere vith
any designated use as determined by the director of
Ohio environmental protection agency.
Toxic substances narrative: All pollutants or
combinations of pollutants not specifically mentioned
in this rule, shall not exeeed vater quality criteria
derived according to the procedures set forth in
"Draft Guidelines for Deriving Numerical National
Vater Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic
Life and Its Uses," United States environmental
protection agency, July 5, 1983, or, if insufficient
data prevent the use of this procedure, shall not
exceed, at any time, one-tenth, or, for pollutants or
combinations of pollutants which are known to be
persistent toxicants in the aquatic environment, one
one-hundreth of the ninety-six-hour median tolerance
limit (TLm) or LC-0 for any representative aquatic
species. However, more stringent application factors
shall be imposed where justified by "Ambient Vater
Quality Criteria," documents, United States
environmental protection agency, 1980; "Quality
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State and Waiter Us*
Criteria Values
Ohio River
Criteria for Water," U.S. environmental protection
agency, 1976; "Water Quality Criteria 1972," "National
Acadeny of Sciences" and "National Academy of
Engineering," 1973; or other scientifically based
publications.
The median tolerance limit (TLm) or LC-n shall be
determined by static or dynamic bioassays performed in
accordance vith methods outlined in "Standard Methods
for that Examination of Water and Vastevater,"
fifteenth edition, "American Public Health
Association," "American Water Works Association" and
the "Water Pollution Control Federation, 1981"; or
performed in accordance vith procedures outlined in
"Methods of Acute Toxicity Tests vith Fish,
Macroinvertebrates and Amphibians," United States
environmental protection agency 660/3-75-009. Tests
vill be conducted using actual effluent, receiving
vater and representative aquatic species whenever
possible.
Free from substances in concentrations which are toxic
or harmful to humans, animals, or fish and other
aquatic life which would in any manner adversely
affect the flavor, color, odor, or edibility of fish
and other aquatic life, wildlife or livestock or which
are othervise detrimental to the designated uses..
Toxic substances narrative:
(a) Non-cumulative substances - not ' to exceed
one-tenth (0.1) the ninety-six-hour LC.« of
representative important species indigenous ?o the
Ohio river.
(b) Cumulative substances - not to exceed one
one-hundredth (0.01) of the ninety-six-hour LC-n of
representative important species indigenous to the
Ohio riv«r.
(e) Other limiting concentrations may be used when
justified on the basis of available evidence and
approved by the appropriate regulatory agency or
agencies.
Oklahoma36 .
Public And Private
Water Supplitis
2,4-D
2,4,5-TP
Sndrin
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Toxaphene
0.100
0.010
0.0002
0.004
0.100
0.005
(maximum mg/L)
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State and VaterDse
Criteria Values
Fish And Wildlife
Primary Contact
Recreation
Secondary Contact
Recreation
All
Pesticides Narrative: Pesticides shall not be present
in such concentrations as to cause the waters of the
State vhich are designated as public and private water
supplies to be toxic, carcinogenic, outagenic, or
teratogenic to humans.
Pesticides Narrative: Pesticides shall not be present
in such concentrations as to cause the waters of the
State designated for fish and wildlife propagation to
be toxic* careenogenie or outagenie to animal, plant
or aquatic life. The instreaa concentrations of
pesticides shall not exceed the following numerical
criteria:
Aldrin/Dieldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Endosulfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lindane
Toxaphene
2,4,5-TP Silvex
1.00
0.02
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.50
.00
.00
(maximum ug/L)
2.
1.
10.00
Although pesticides can occur in lov concentrations in
the. water column, they may • accumulate in bottom
sediments and tissues of. aquatic organisms.
Therefore, sediment and tissue analyses should
routinely be used to complement water analyses.
Pesticide concentrations in whole fish tissue in
excess of the following alert levels shall be cause
for concern and further investigation:
Aldrin/Dieldrin
Chlordane
DDT
Endrin
Heptachlor
Toxaphene
0.3 (maximum mg/kg)
0.3
5.0
0.3
0.3
5.0
The water shall not contain chemical, physical or
biological substances in concentrations that are
irritating to .skin or sense organs or are toxic or
cause illness upon ingestion by human beings.
Waters shall be maintained to be free from human
pathogens in numbers vhich may produce adverse health
effects in humans.
Mixing zones narrative: The concentration of toxic
substances in a mixing zone shall not exceed the
96-hour LCcn £or sensitive indigenous species.
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State and Waiter Ose
Oregon37
All
Crltoria Values
Pesticides and other Organic Tonic Substances shall
not exceed those criteria contained in the 1976
edition of the EPA publication "Quality Criteria for
Water". These criteria shall apply unless supporting
data show conclusively that .beneficial uses will not
be adversely affected by exceeding a criterion by a
specific amount or that a more stringent criterion is
warranted to protect beneficial uses.
Pennsylvania
All
38
Protection Of Aquatic
Ufe
Water shall not contain substances attributable to
point or nonpoint source discharges in concentration
or amounts sufficient to be inimical or harmful to the
water uses to be protected or to human, animal, plant,
or aquatic life.
(The list of specific water quality criteria does not
include all possible substances that could cause
pollution. For substances not listed, the general
criterion that these substances shall not be inimical
or injurious to the designated water uses applies.
The best scientific .information available will be used
tp judge the suitability of a given waste discharge
where these substances are involved.)
.(a) When a specific water quality criterion has not
been established for a pollutant and a discharge of &
pollutant into waters of the Commonwealth designated
to be protected for aquatic life is proposed, a
specific water quality criterion for such pollutant
may be determined by the Department through
establishment of a safe concentration value.
(b) Establishment of a safe concentration value shall
be based upon data obtained from relevant aquatic
field studies* standard continuous flow bioassay test
data which exists in substantial available literature,.
or data obtained from specific tests utilizing one or
more representative important species of aquatic life
designated on a case-by-case basis by the Department
and conducted in a water environment which is equal to
or closely approximates that of the natural quality of
the receiving waters.
(c) In those cases where it has been determined that
there is insufficient available data to establish a
safe concentration value for a pollutant, the safe
concentration value shall be determined by applying
the appropriate application factor to the 96-hour (or
greater) LCSO value. Except where the Department
determines, based upon substantial available data,
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State and VaterDse
Criteria Values
that an experimentally derived application factor
exists for a pollutant, the following application
factors shall be used in the determination of safe
concentration values:
(1) Concentrations of pollutants that are
noneumulative shall not exceed 0.05 (1/20) of the
96-hour LC50.
(2) Concentrations of pollutants that are
cumulative shall not exceed 0.01 (1/100) of the
96-hour LC50.
(3) Concentrations of pollutants vith knovn
synergistie or antagonistic effects vith pollutants in
the effluent or receiving water vill be established on
a case-by-case basis using the best available
scientific data.
Rhode Island
All
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EPA has published vater quality criteria for the
protection of aquatic life for 21 of the 126 priority
pollutants (43 PR 79318 November 28, 1980). These
pollutants are priority metals and pesticides, and
PCBa and . cyanide. The EPA Vater Quality Criteria
consist of both an acute concentration and a chronic
concentration for each pollutant. The acute
concentration should not. be exceeded by the average
concentration of the pollutant over any 30 day period.
The methodology by which these EPA criteria were
derived is given in the Federal Register announcement.
On 7 February 1984, EPA published in the Federal
Register proposed revisions to several of the 1980
water quality criteria (49 PR 4551). Vith the
exception of chromium III for which no 1980 criteria
wer« available, the 1984 fresh water criteria will
only be adopted by the State after they have been
promulgated by EPA.
Aldrin
Dieldrin
Chlordane
DDT
Endoaulfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lindane
Toxanhene
Acute
3.0
2.5
2.4
1.1
0.22
0.18
0.52
2.0
1.6
Chronic
0.0019
0.0043
0.001
0.056
0.0023
0.0038
0.080
0.013
(maximum ug/i)
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State and Hitter Pae
All Freshwater
Criteria Values
RIDEM has derived freshwater guidelines for mmny
pollutants for which EPA Water Quality Criteria are
not available. In order for a guideline to be
derived, the toxicity database for the pollutant must
meet minimum requirements.
The database oust contain at least tvo acute toxicity
test .-results expressed as either an EC-O or an LC
as specified in the EPA Water Quality Criter
Guidalinms (45 PR 79343, 1980). "LC50" is defined as
the concentration of a test material in a suitable
diluent at which 50 percent of the exposed organisms
is defined
n a suitable
diluent at which 50 percent of the exposed organisms
exhibit a specified response during a specified time
period.
percen o e expos
di« during a specified time period. "EC-0
as the concentration of a test material I
Th« two acute toxicity test results shall consist of:
1. One daphnid (D.magna or D. pulex)
2. One fish either:
(a) fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)
~ (b) bluegill (Lepomis macroehirus)
(c) rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
Por every pollutant which meets these minimum data
requirements, acute and chronic guidelines are derived
using the following equations:
Lowest LC50 or EC3Q x .05 - Acute guideline
Acute guideline / 45 - Chronic guidaline
The uncertainty factor, .05, is intended to provide an
adequate margin of safety to protect most aquatic
organisms from acutely toxic effects. The uncertainty
factor was selected by calculating uncertainty factor
guidelines for those pollutants with EPA Water Quality
Criteria. These guidelines were most similiar to the
EPA Water Quality Criteria when an uncertainty factor
of .05 was used.
The acute guideline is divided by an acute to chronic
ratio of 45 to yield the chronic guideline. This
ratio was derived by the State of Michigan using all
available acute to chronic values for priority
pollutant m tests performed on fresh water species. It
vas determined that SOX of the pollutants would have a
geometric mean acute to chronic ratio of 45 or less.
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State and Vater- Use
Criteria Values
Class A
Classes B and C
Class 0
Classes A, B, C, 0
All Saltwater
The methodology by vhich these criteria are derived is
similiar to that used in the EPA Red Book (1976) vhich
preceded the 1980 Water Quality Criteria.
The limits prescribed by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency vill be used where not
superseded by more stringent State requirements.
The ambient concentration of a pollutant in a vater
body designated as suitable for fish and/or wildlife
habitat shall not exceed the R.I. DEM Ambient Vater
Quality Guidelines for the protection of aquatic
organisms from chronic effects, unless the chronic
guideline is modified by the Director based on results
of bioassay tests conducted in accordance with the
terms and conditions provided in Appendix C.
The ambient concentration of a pollutant in a water
body designated as suitable for fish migration shall
not exceed the R.I. DEM Ambient Vater Quality
Guidelines for the protection of aquatic organisms
from acute effects, unless the acute guideline is
modified by the Director based on results of bioassay
tests conducted in accordance with the terms and
conditions provided in Appendix C.
Vatera shall be free from chemical constituents in
concentrations or combinations which could be harmful
to human, animal, or aquatic life for the appropriate
most sensitive and governing water class use or
unfavorably alter the biota.
EPA 1980 Ambient Vater Quality Criteria for estuarine
and marine waters shall be adopted as State water
quality guidelines for those pollutants for which they
were derived. These guidelines are given in Table
HI. At this time, no minimum data base guidelines
for priority pollutants in marine waters have been
derived.
Aldrin
Dield::in
Chlordane
DDT
Endosulfan
Endrin
Eeptaehlor
Lindane
Toxaphene
Acute
1.3
0.71
0.09
0.13
0.034
0.037
0.053
0.16
Chronic
0.0019
0.0040
0.010
0.0087
0.0023
0.0036
0.07
(maximum ug/L)
Class SA
None in concentrations or combinations which would, be
harmful to human, animal or aquatic life or which
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Class SB
Class SC
Classes At B,, C, D,
SA, SB, SC
would make the waters unsafe or unsuitable for 'fish or
shellfish or their propagation, impair the
palatability of same, or impair the waters for any
other uses.
None in concentrations or combinations which would be
harmful to human, animal or aquatic life or which
would ,mak* the waters unsafe or unsuitable for fish or
shellfish or their propatation, or impair the water
for any other usage assigned to this Class.
None in concentrations or combinations which would be
harmful to human, animal or aquatic life or which
would make the waters unsafe or unsuitable for fish or
shellfish or their propagation, or impair the water
for any other usage assigned to this Class. The
ambient concentration of a pollutant in a water body
designated as suitable for fish and/or wildlife
habitat shall not exceed the R.I. OEM Ambient Water
Quality Guidelines for the protection of aquatic
organisms from chronic effects, unless the chronic
guideline is modified by the Director based on results
of bioassay tests conducted in accordance with the
terms and conditions provided in Appendix C.
If an aquatic toxicity value has not been established
established in the R.I. OEM Ambient Water Quality
Guidelines, then the level of any "priority pollutant"
shall not exceed the "detection limits" in the ambient
water unless the discharger demonstrates to the
satisfaction of the Director that a higher
concentration will not adversely effect the most
sensitive use of the water body.
South. CttroXiiu
«
All
All
Classes AA and SAA
Classes A-Tremt and
B-Trout
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: All ground waters and
surface waters of the State shall at all times,
regardless of flow, be free from toxic substances
attributable to sewage, industrial waste, or other
waste in concentrations or combinations which
interfere with classified water uses, existing water
uses or which are harmful to human, animal, plant or
aquatic life.
Toxic substances narrative: Natural conditions vill
be maintained and protected as feasible, within the
Department's statutory authority.
Toxic substances narrative:
combination with other
None alone op in
substances or wastes
in
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Criteria Values
Classes A and SB
Classes B and SC
'- Class $A
South Dakota
All
41
sufficient amounts to be injurious :to reproducing
trout populations or in any manner adversely affect
the taste, color, odor, or sanitary condition thereof
or impair the vaters for any other best usage as
determined for the specific vaters vhich are assigned
to this class.
Toxic substances narrative: None alone or in
combination with other substances or wastes in
sufficient amounts to make the vaters unsafe . or
unsuitable for primary contact recreation or to impair
the vaters for any other best usage as determined for
the specific vaters vhich are assigned to this class.
Toxic substances
combination vith
sufficient amounts
freshvater(B) and
narrative: None alone or in
other substances or vastes in
to be harmful to the survival of
marine(SC) fauna and flora or the
culture or propagation thereof; to adversely affect
the taste, color, odor, or sanitary condition of fish
for human consumption; to make the (B) vaters unsafe
or unsuitable for secondary contact recreation; or to
impair the vaters for any other best usage as
determined for the.specific vaters vhich are assigned
to this class.
Toxic substances narrative: None- alone or in
combination vith other substances or vastes in
sufficient amounts to adversely affect the taste,
color, odor, or sanitary condition of clams, mussels,
or oysters for human consumption; or impair the vaters
for any other best usage as determined for the
specific vaters vhich are assigned to this class.
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: Substances vhich produce
concentrations of any substance toxic to humans,
animals, plants,or aquatic life may not be discharged
or caused to be discharged into any lake or stream.
Toxicity of nonbioaccumulative pollutants to aquatic
life shall be determined in accordance vith
574:03:02:06. Toxicity of bioaccumulative pollutants
shall be determined using bioassay methods in
accordance vith §74:03:02:06 and additional data on
the rates and effects of bioaccumulation so that the
aquatic community and those organisms including man
vhich use those aquatic organisms for food are
protected against potential adverse health effects.
Toxic concentrations shall be specified in terms of
24-hour and 30-day average concentrations or maximum
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Criteria Values
concentrations allowed or both. Where numerical
criterion has been established for a toxic substance
in $§74:03:02:33 to 74:03:02:45, inclusive, the
provisions of this section do not apply to that
substance.
Tennessee
All
42
Domestic Water Supply
Industrial Water '
Supply
Fish And Aquatic Life
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: The waters shall not
contain toxic substances, whether alone or in
combination with other substances, which will produce
toxic conditions that aaterially affect the health and
safety of nan or animals, or impair the safety of
conventionally treated water supplies. Available
references to be used in determining such conditions
shall include, but not be limited to: Quali ty
Criteria for Water (Section 304(a) of PL 92-500);
Federal Regulations under Section 307 of PL 92-500;
and Federal Regulations under Section 1412 of the
Public Health Service Act as amended by the Safe
Drinking Water Act (PL 93-523).
Toxic substances narrative: The waters shall not
contain toxic substances whether alone or in
combination with other substances, which will
adversely affect industrial processing.
Toxic Substances Narrative: This waters shall not
contain substances or combination of substances
including disease causing agents which, by way of
either direct exposure of indirect exposure through
food chains aay cause death, disease, behavioral
abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations,
physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in
reproduction), physical deformations, or restrict or
impair growth in fish or aquatic life or their
offspring. In no event shall the diversity or
productivity of biota significant to the aquatic
community of the receiving stream be decreased.
References to be used in determining toxicity
limitations shall include but not be limited to:
Quality Criteria for Water (Section 304(a) of Public
Lav 92-500), Federal Regulations under Section 307 of
Public Lav 92-500, and Federal Regulations under
Section 1412 of the Public Health Service Act as
amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act (Public Lav
93-523). The use of such information should be
limited to that part applicable to the aquatic
community found within the receiving stream or waters
under consideration.
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Recreation
Irrigation
Livestock Watering
and Vildlife
Criteria Values
Toxic substances narrative: The vater shall not
contain toxic substances whether alone or in
combination with other substances, that vill render
the waters unsafe or unsuitable for water contact
activities, or will propose toxic conditions that will
adversely affect man or animal.
Toxic . substances narrative: The waters shall not
contain toxic substances that will produce toxic
conditions that vill affect the water for irrigation.
Toxic substances narrative: The waters shall not
contain toxic substances whether alone or in
combination with other substances, that will produce
toxic conditions that will affect the water for
livestock watering and wildlife.
All Fresh Vater
All
Aldria
Chlordane
Chlorpyrifos
DOT
Demeton
Dieldrin
Gutfa±oa
Beptaehlor
Lindane
Halathion
Hehtoxychlor
Hirex
Parathion
Toxaphene
Acute (ug/1)
3.0
2.4
0.083
1.1
2.5
0.52
2.0
0.065
0.78
Chronic (ug/1)
0.0043
0.041
0.0010
0.1'
' 0.0019
0.01
0.0038
0.08
0.01
0.01
0.001
0.013
0.0002
(d) Toxic parameters. Surface waters will not be
toxic to man, or to terrestrial or aquatic life.
Additional standards requirements for toxic materials
are specified in §307.6 of this title (relating to
Toxic Materials).
§307.6. TOXIC MATERIALS.
(a) Application. Standards and procedures set forth
in this section apply to all water in the state,
except as indicated in §307.8 of this title (relating
to Application of Standards) and §307.9 of this title
(relating to Determination of Standards Attainment).
(b) General provisions.
(1) Vater in the state shall not be acutely toxic to
aquatic life except in saall zones of initial dilution
at discharge points, in accordance with §307.8
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State and Filter Use
Criteria Values
(relating to Application of Standards). .
(2) Water in th« state with designated or existing
aquatic life uses shall not be chronically toxic to
aquatic life, except in mixing zones and belov
critical low-flov conditions, in accordance with
$307.S of this title (relating to Application of
Standards).
(3) Water in the state shall be maintained to preclude
adverse toxic effects on human health resulting from
contact recreation, consumption of aquatic organisms,
or consumption of drinking water after reasonable
treatment. In addition to other provisions of this
section, permitted discharges or other controllable
sources shall not cause maximum contaminant levels for
public drinking water supplies, as established in the
federal 'Safe Drinking Water Act (42 United States Code
300f et seq.), to be exceeded after reasonable
treatment by a water supply treatment plant. The
commission will utilize available investigative and
regulatory means to identify and control sources of
toxic pollutants which cause or could potentially
cause the following guidelines to be exceeded:
(A) EPA maximum
supplies; and
contaminant levels for drinking water
(B) U.S. Food and Drug Administration Action Levels
for toxic concentrations in fish and shellfish tissue.
Utah4*
Domestic Source
Aquatic Wildlife
3A,3B,3C, and 3D
Bndrin
Lindane
Methoxyehlor
Toxaphene
2,4-D
2,4,3-TP
Aldrin
Chlordane
Endosulfan
Guthion
Heptachlor
Methoxyehlor
Nirex
Parathion
PCBs
0.2
4.0
100
5
100
10
3.0
,0043
2.4
.02$
.18
.01
.0038
(Maximum ug/L)
4 day avg.
1 hour avg.
4 day avg.
1 hour avg.
4 day avg.
.52 1 hour avg.
.003
.001
.04
.014 4 day avg.
2.0 1 hour avg.
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Criteria Values
All
PCP
Endrin
Lindane
M«thoxychlor
Toxaphene
13
20
.0023
.18
.08
2.0
.03
.0002
4 day avg.
1 hour avg.
4 day avg.
1 hour avg.
4 day avg.
1 hour avg.
4 day avg.
pB dependent
pfi dependent
.73 1 hour avg.
Toxie substances narrative: It shall be unlawful, and
a violation of these regulations, for any person to
discharge or place any vaste or other substance in
such a way as will, be or may become offensive; or
conditions which produce undesirable aquatic life, or
which produce objectionable tastes in edible aquatic
organisms; or concentrations or combinations of
substances which produce undesirable physiological
responses in desirable resident fish, or other
desirable aquatic life, as determined by bioassay or
other tests performed in accordance with standard
procedures determined by the Committee.
Vermoo.t
All
45
Not specified • ••
Toxie substances narrative: The waters of the state
shall be managed so as to prevent the discharge of
radioactive or toxic wastes in concentrations,
quantities or combinations that may create a
significant likelihood of an adverse impact on human
health or acute or chronic toxicity to aquatic biota,
fish off wildlife. Unless otherwise specified by these
rules, ' the Secretary shall determine limits for
discharges containing radioactive or toxic wastes
based on the results of biological toxicity
assessments and the appropriate available scientific
data, including but not limited to:
1. The .current edition of the EPA publications
"Quality Criteria for Water" and the 1980 Ambient
Water Quality Criteria Documents ("White Books")
2. The Vermont State Health Regulation, Part 5,
Chapter 3 "Radiological Health", effective as of
12/10/77
3. 10 CFR 50, Appendix I
In establishing such limits the Secretary shall give
consideration to the potential for bioaccumulation as
well as any antagonostie or synergistic relationship
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State and Waiter Use
Criteria Values
that may exist between the wastes being discharged and
the concentration of other wastes or constituents in
the receiving waters. The discharge of radioactive
wastes shall not exceed the lowest liaits which are
reasonably achievable.
Virginia.46
Public Water Supply
(Surface)
Surface Water
(Chronic Criteria For
The Protection Of
Aquatic Life)
All •
Endrin
Lindane
Mttthoxyehlor
Toxaphena
0.0002
0.004
0.1
0.005
(Maximum ng/L)
The nuaeric standards for these chemicals are
designated to protect public water supplies for human
consuaptlon. The liaits established for these
cheaicals may not protect aquatic life. Therefore
when a request to classify a stream as a public water
supply is received, it will be determined if more
stringent limits are needed for those chemicals in
order to insure protection of aquatic life.
2,4.0
2,4,5-TP
Aldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Demeton
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Guthion
Heptachlor
Lindane
•Malathion
Methoxycfelor
Hirex
Parathion
Toxaphen«
0.1
0.01
(maximum ng/L)
0.03 - freshwater*'
0.003 - saltwater
0.0043 - freshwater
0.004 - saltwater
0.001 - all waters
0.1 - all waters
0.0019 - all waters
0.056 - freshwater
0.0087 - saltwater
0.0023 - all waters
0.01 - all waters
0.0038 - freshwater
0.0036 - saltwater
0.080 - freshwater
0.0016 -.saltwater
0.1 - all waters
0.03 - all waters
0.00 - all waters
0.04 - all waters
0.013 - freshwater
0.0007 - saltwater
(maximum ug/L)
All State waters shall be free from substances
attributable to sewage, industrial waste, or other
wasted in concentration, amounts, or combinations
which contravene established standards or interfere
directly or indirectly with reasonable, beneficial
uses of such water or which are inimical or harmful
to
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Criteria Values
human, animal, plant or aquatic life. Specific
substances to be controlled include, but are not
limited to: floating debris, oil, scum, and other
floating material; toxic substances; substances that
se*ttle to fora sludge deposits, and substances vhich
nourish undesirable or nuisance aquatic plant life.
Effluents vhich tend to raise the temperature of the
receiving vater vill also be controlled.
Washington
All
Class AA
47
Class A, B, and C
All
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: Toxic, radioactive, or
deleterious material concentrations shall be less than
those vhich adversely affect public health, the
natural aquatic environnent, or the desirability of
the vater for any use.
Toxic substances narrative: Toxic, radioactive, or
deleterious material concentrations shall be belov
those of.public health significance, or vhich
may cause acute off chronic toxic conditions to the
aquatic biota,, or vhich may adversely affect any vater
use. • • •
Deleterious concentrations of toxic, or other
nonradioactive materials, shall be determined by the
department in consideration of the Quality Criteria
for Vater, published by USEFA 1976, and as revised, as
the authoritative source for criteria and/or other
relevant information, if justified.
¥«st Virginia4
All
All
Chlordane .0043 (Maximum ug/L)
DDT .001
Aldrin/Dieldrin .0019
Endrin .0023
Toxaphene .005
Methoxycfalor .03
No savage, industrial vastes or other wastes present
in any of the vaters of the State shall cause or
materially contribute to concentrations of materials
harmful, hazardous or toxic t" man. animal, or aquatic
life. '
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Wiaconxin
An
All
49
Fish And Aquatic Lifa
Public Water Supply
Criteria Values
Not specified
Toxic substances narrative: Substances in
concentrations or combinations which are toxic or
harmful to humans shall not be present in amounts
found to be of public health significance, nor shall
substances be present in amounts which are acutely
harmful to animal, plant or aquatic life.
*
Toxic substances narrative: Unauthorized
concentrations of substances are not permitted that
alone or in combination vith other materials present
are toxic to fish or other aquatic life. The
determination of the toxicity of a substance shall be
based upon the available scientific data base.
References to be used in determining the toxicity of a
substance shall include, but not be limited to:
1. "Quality Criteria for Water". EPA-440/9-76-003.
united States Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, D.C., 1976, and
2. "Water Quality Criteria 1972". BPA-R3-73-033.
National Academy.of Sciences, National Academy of
Engineering. United States Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C., 1974.
3. Questions concerning the permissible levels, or
changes in the same, of a substance, or combination of
substances, of undefined toxicity to fish and other
biota shall be resolved in accordance vith the methods
specified in "Water Quality Criteria 1972", "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastevater",
14th Edition, 1975 (American Public Health
Association, Nev York) or other methods approved by
the department of natural resources.
Toxic substances narrative: The intake vater supply
vill be such that by appropriate treatment and
adequate safeguards it vill meet the Public Health
Service Drinking Water Standards, 1962.
Concentrations of other constituents must not be
hazardous to health.
Vyoadng
An
An
.50
Not specified
"* v *
Toxic substances narrative: Toxic or potentially
toxic materials attributable to or influenced by the
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American Samoa'
All
51
Criteria Valuta
activities of man shall not be present in any Wyoming
surface waters in concentrations or combinations which
would damage or iapair the normal growth, function or
reproduction of human, animal, plant or aquatic life.
Unless otherwise specified in these Standards, maximum
allowable concentrations shall be based on the latest
edition of Quality Criteria for Water, published by
EPA or; its successor agency, and/or more generally
accepted scientific information.
In those cases where maxima allowable concentrations
«ust be determined through bioassay, the appropriate
protocol and application factors as outlined in the
latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater or otner methods apP^^.U ky—
the EPA shall be usedT" The bioassay shall be
conducted with an ecologically or economically
important sensitive resident specie in the most
sensitive portion of its life cycle, if applicable, as
a test organisa. Makeup water for the analysis should
be constituted so as to approximate the most probable
cheaical and physical characteristics of the receiving
water in question. Th« observed 96-hour LC50 is then
to b« multiplied by an application factor, where
established by EPA, to deteraine the "safe"
concentrations for the compound in question. 'Where
appropriate application factors have not yet .been
established, the method for deriving said application
factor shall b« that described in the latest edition
°* Standard Methods or other methods approved by EPA.
Toxic substances specifically designed to kill or
eliminate problem-causing aquatic life (such as
mosquito larvae or heavy plant growth in irrigation
ditches) may be added to surface waters of the State
provided such substances are administered in
accordance with label directions. However, compliance
vita label directions shall not exempt any person from
the penalty provisions of W.S. 35-ll-901(b).
This Section shall not apply to the use of fish
toxicants by the Wyoming Game and Pish Department.
Maximum allowable pesticides concentrations shall
conform to national guidelines as stated in the
Quality Criteria for Water.
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Dimtriet of Colombia52
Class C
Toxic substances narratives The waters of the
District shall be free from substances attributable to
point OK non-point sources discharged in
concentrations that injure, are toxic to or produce
adverse physiological or behavioral responses in
humans, plants or animals.
Those criteria listed under the category of Toxics
shan b« applicable only to protection of the
designated beneficial use for periods of less than
ninety-six (96) hours. The determination of the
criteria noeded to protect the beneficial use for a
longer period of time shall be made on a case by case
basis and may be more stringent.
Aldrin
Chlordane
DDT and Zsomers
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Toxaphene
0.4
0.0043
0.001
0.0019
0.01
0023
0038
0.
0.
(maximum ug/L)
0.01
Class 0
Aldrin
Chlordane
DDT and Isomers
Dieldrin
Endosulfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Toxaphena
0.000071
o.ooos1
o.oo1 .
0.000071
75.0
0.0003}
0.00071
(maximum ug/L)
A risk factor of 10"6 is associated vith the
criterion; the preferred level is absolutely none.
Waters shall be free from toxicants and other
substances in concentrations that cannot be reduced to
levels safe for distribution by the existing or
presently proposed water treatment facilities which
use these waters.
Guam
.53
Concentrations of pesticides shall not exceed one
percent (0.01) of the 24-hour LC«n value determined
using th« receiving water in question and the most
sensitive species of aquatic organisms affected.
Where th« concentration based on the LC«ft data exceeds
the recommended maximum concentrations, the maximum
concentrations shall constitute the criteria.
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State and Vater Use
Cri teria Values
N. Mariana Islands
All Surface Waters
For the listing of all pesticides (Organochlorides,
Organophosphates, Carbamates, Herbicides, Fungicides,
Defolliants, and Botanicals) please refer to the U.S.
Water Quality Criteria "Blue Book".
Note:
The setting or publishing of maximum concentrations
(limits) for specific pesticides and other toxics
should in no vmy be construed as official approval or
authorization for their us* where such use is contrary
to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or other
Federal or local regulations which nov exist or may be
enacted at so«« future time.
Aldrin-Dieldrin
Chlordane
Demeton
Endosulfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lindane
Malathion
Methoxycolor
Mirex
Parathion
Toxaphene
0.
0.
0.
.003
.004
.100
0.001
0.004
.001
.004
0.001
0.030
0.001
0.040
0.005
(maximum ug/L)
0,
0.
Free fro» toxic or other deleterious substances at
levels or in combinations sufficient to be toxic or
harmful to human, animal, plant, or aquatic life, or
in amounts sufficient to interfere vith any beneficial
use of the vater.
Toxic substances narrative: Criteria for toxic
substances are given as either a maximum concentration
or are determined by multiplying the stated
application factor by the concentration determined to
be lethal to 502 of the most sensitive indigenous
organism after 96 hours of exposure (96 LC50). The 96
LC.Q values shall be determined by using tne bioassay
procedures consistent vith those described in the
latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastevater.
The 96 LC-Q values shall be determined by using the
most sensitive indigenous organism to the substance in
question. When both an application factor and a
maximum concentration are given, the lesser of the tvo
resulting concentrations shall constitute the vater
quality standards.
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Criteria Valuta
Pu*rto Rico-'5
SB, SC, and SO
General Toxic Standards: No substance or combination
of substances including oil and petroleum products
shall be present in surface vater in amounts that
exceed 0.01 times the 96 LC-0 concentration unless it
can be demonstrated to the Department that a higher
concentration has no adverse effect, chronic or acute,
on the intended uses of the vater body in question.
General Considerations: Analytical, testing methods
for these criteria shall be in accordance vith the
most recent editions of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Vastevater, and other methods
published by knowledgeable authorities and possessing
adequate procedural precision and accuracy.
Effects of toxic or other deleterious substances at
levels or combinations sufficient to. interfere vith
any beneficial use of the vater, shall be evaluated as
a niniouB by the use of a 96-hour bioassay as
described in the most recent editions of Standard
Methods for the Examination of water and "
gastevaterlSurvival of test organisms shall not be
less than that in controls vhich utilize appropriate
vater. Failure to determine presence of toxic
substances by this method shall not preclude
determination of excessive levels of toxic substances
on the basis of other criteria or methods*
Pollutant discharges shall be controlled so as to
protect not only the vaters receiving the discharge
directly, but also those vaters into vhich the initial
receiving vaters may flov.
Orffanochloride pesticide residues ia surface and "
coastal vaters shall not exceed 1/100 of the TLa 96
hours of approved species. In no case shall these
pesticides exceed the following concentrations:
Aldrin-Dieldrin
Chlordane
DOT
Endomilfan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lind&ne
Methoxychlor
Nirex
Toxaphena
Perthano
0.
0.
.002
,004
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.004
0.020
0.001
0.005
(maximum ug/L)
0.070
Organophosphorus and non-persistent pesticide residue
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State and VaterJJsa
Criteria Valuaa
All
in surface and coastal water shall not exceed 1/10 of
the TLa 96-hours approved species.
Demeton
Guthion
Malathion
Paratnion
2,4-13
2,4,S-TP(Silvex)
0.100
0.010
0.100
0.004
80.00
10.00
(maximum ug/L)
Toxic substances narrative: The waters of Puerto Rico
shall not contain any substance in a concentration
which is toxic or which produces undesirable
physiological responses in human, fish or other animal
life, and plants.
The waters of Puerto Rico .shall not contain two or
more substances whose combination is toxic or which
will produce chronic or other undesirable
physiological responses in humans, fish or other
animal life and plants,,
Trust Territory'
All :
.56
(maximum ug/L)
(marine), 0.003 (Class 1 and 2)
(marine), 0.01 (Class 1 and 2)
Aldriffl ' -0.002
DJeldrin 0.002
Chlordan« 0.004
Deaeton 0.1
DDT 0.001
Endosulfan 0.001
Endrin 0.004
Guthion 0.01
Heptachlor 0.001
Lindane 0.004
Malathion 0.1
Methoxychlor 0.03
Mires 0.001
Parathion 0.04
Toxaphene 0.005
Toxic substances narrative: Criteria for toxic
substances are given as either a maximum concentration
or are determined by multiplying the stated
application factor by the concentration determined to
be lethal to 50Z of the most sensitive indigenous
organism after 96 hours of exposure (96 LC). 96 LC
values shall be determined by using bioassay
procedures consistent with those described in the
latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Vastevater.96 LC 50 values shall be
determined by using the most sensitive indigenous
organism to the substance in question. When both an
application factor and a maximum concentration are
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Criteria Values
given, the lesser of the tvo shall constitute the
water quality standard.
No substance or combination of substances shall be
present in surface vaters in amounts that exceed 0.01
times the 96 LC-0 concentration unless it can be
demonstrated to the Board that a higher concentration
has no. adverse effect, chronic or acute, on the
intended uses of the water body in question.
General considerations:
(1) All methods of sample collection, preservation,
and analysis used to determine compliance vith these
standards shall be in accordance vith those specified
' in the current edition of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Vastevater or methods
specified by the EPA in 40 CFR Part 136, as
appropriate.
Samples should be collected at approximately equal
intervals and under those conditions of tide,
rainfall, and time of day when pollution is most
likely to b« a maximum.
(2) Vhenaver natural conditions are of a lover quality
than an assigned water quality criteria, the natural
conditions shall constitute the vater quality criteria.
(3) Whenever 2 numeric criteria are in conflict, the
more stringent criteria shall constitute the vater
quality criteria.
(4) Pollutant discharges to either surface or ground
vaters shall be controlled so as to protect not only
Che receiving vater but also those vaters into which
the initial receiving vaters may flov.
All surface vaters shall be free of substances
attributable to municipal, industrial, or other
discharges or wastes in concentrations or combinations
vhich are toxic or which produce undesirable
physiological responses in human, fish, and other
aninal life, and plants.
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