United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Center for Environmental Research
Information
Cincinnati, OH 45268
EPA-600/D-83-098
September 1983
oEPA DECHNOLOGY
T
RANSFER
The Bridge Between
Research and Use
New Technology Transfer Design
Manuals Available
Two new Technology Transfer Design Manuals are now
available: the Process Design Manual for Land Application of
Municipal Sludge and the Design Manual for Municipal Waste-
water Stabilization Ponds.
The Process Design Manual for Land Application of Municipal
Sludge presents a rational procedure for the design of municipal
sludge land application systems. The utilization of sludge in
agriculture and forestry, the reclamation of disturbed and
marginal lands, and dedicated high-rate surface disposal practic-
es are discussed in detail, with design concepts and criteria
presented where available. Also presented is a two-phased
planning approach to site identification, evaluation, and selec-
tion. Information on field investigations is also included. The
manual provides examples of each land application option as well
as case studies of sludge utilization in agriculture and of
reclamation of disturbed mining lands.
The information contained in this manual is intended for use by
municipal wastewater treatment and sludge management author-
ities, project planners, designers, and consultants in many
disciplines including engineering, soil science, agronomy, etc.
The Design Manual for Municipal Wastewater Stabilization
Ponds presents information on factors affecting treatment, proc-
ess design principles and applications, aspects of physical design
and construction, suspended solids removal alternatives, and
cost and energy requirements. An evaluation of various facul-
tative and aerated pond design equations is included as an
appendix. This manual provides the engineering community and
related industry a new source of information to be used in the
planning, design, and operation of stabilization ponds treating
municipal wastewater.
Recently distributed at the 56th Annual Conference and
Exposition of the Water Pollution Control Federation, these
manuals can now be obtained by using the order form in the back
of this publication.
Seminar on Instrumentation
and Process Control in
POTWs
This 3-day seminar is sponsored by the USEPA's Municipal
Environmental Research Laboratory and will be held November
29 through December 2, 1983 at the Ambassador West Hotel,
1300 North State Parkway, Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the
seminar is to disseminate the latest information on state-of-the-
art technology for design, selection, installation, maintenance,
and operation of automation and instrumentation in Publicly
Owned Treatment Works (POTW) applications. This practical
"HOW TO" seminar will focus on case histories of problems, their
causes and their solutions, and will note the benefits of
employing control strategies. Some topics to be covered in depth
are: flow measurement; level measurement; on-line analytical
measurement; pump controls; valve controls; control system
design; control stragegy definition; and process control experi-
ences. This seminar should be of interest to planners, consult-
ants, managers, regulatory officials, educators, and operators of
POTWs. All attendees will receive a handout that includes a
comprehensive checklist and guide for instrument and control
system design and installation.
For further information, please write or call Ms. Sheri Marshall,
Conference Coordinator, Dynamac Corporation, 11140 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, MD 20852; Telephone 301-468-2500
Workshops on Water Quality
Assessment of Toxic and
Conventional Pollutants
The Center for Environmental Research Information and the
Water Quality Modeling Center, Environmental Research Labo-
ratory, Athens, Georgia, are sponsoring a series of five-day
workshops to be held February through May 1984.
This workshop series is intended for federal, state, and local
government personnel and consultants who are involved in
evaluating pollutant loadings and their effect on water quality,
and also those persons responsible for evaluating toxic chemical
spills.
The workshops will present simplified methodologies and
provide data for estimating transport and fate of pollutants. All of
the algorithms can be used with a hand-held calculator. Topics
covered in the workshop will include: environmental chemistry of
toxic materials; estimation of pollutant loads from nonpoint and
point sources, including agricultural, forested and urban areas;
impacts of toxic and conventional pollutants on streams, including
impacts of toxic chemical spills; methods for assessing water
quality in lakes and impoundments, including impacts of sedi-
ment, eutrophication and toxic materials; methods for estuary
classification, flushing time prediction, transport of pollutants
and calculation of initial dilution from ocean outfalls; and
assessment of pollutants in groundwater from spills, impound-
ments, landfills, injection wells and land application of wastes.
For additional information on these workshops, contact Carol
Grove, USEPA, CERI, Cincinnati, OH 45268; 513-684-7394.
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New Report Describes Sludge Handling,
Dewatering and Disposal for the Metal
Finishing Industry
This Technology Transfer report will assist metal finishers by
presenting alternatives for the safe disposal of their wastes.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976
(P.L. 94-580) includes provisions for regulation of solid waste
disposal. Subtitle C of RCRA provides for management and
disposal of hazardous waste.
The EPA has classified plating baths, stripping and cleaning
solutions, and sludge resulting from wastewater treatment as
hazardous materials. Disposal of any of these wastes by metal
finishing shops is regulated by the RCRA standards.
This report is provided to aid the metal finisher in assessing
waste generation alternatives and developing a cost-effective
means of complying with the regulatory requirements. It presents
an overview of the regulatory framework developed for hazardous
waste disposal and discusses the disposal methods and associ-
ated costs of commercially operated, secure chemical landfills.
The report also reviews factors influencing waste generation and
describes what can be done to reduce waste volume and the cost
of disposal. The most extensive section provides a cost and
performance evaluation of the different types of dewatering
equipment available.
The order number for this publication is 5018.
Capsule Report Discusses Secondary
Level Smelter Control Systems
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have promul-
gatged standards for lead pollution in the air. The upper limit set
by OSHA for airborne lead in the workroom is 50 fjg/m3; the EPA
limit for ambient air at the plant fence line is 1.5 jug/m3.
The EPA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) have sponsored a study of environmental and
workplace controls at a domestic secondary lead smelter. The
study described in this capsule report was intended primarily to
develop information important to the effective control of envi-
ronmental emissions and employee exposure. The study was
carried out at East Penn Manufacturing Company in Lyons,
Pennsylvania. It comprised an initial baseline evaluation of
environmental and workplace conditions at the East Penn smelt-
er, and a follow-up evaluation after control measures had been
implemented.
In the report, the East Penn process is described with the air
pollution control modifications that were made. Total particulate
and level emission rates are presented for the various in-plant
sources before and after controls were implemented. The addition
of control systems resulted in a significant reduction of smelter
emissions. It was beyond the scope of this study to determine the
effects of the controls on the ambient air concentrations.
The order number for this publication is 2030.
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REQUEST FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MATERIAL
PROCESS DESIGN MANUALS
Sulfide Control in Sanitary Sewerage Systems (Oct 1974) 1005 ~
Nitrogen Control (Oct. 1975) 1007 ~
Wastewater Treatment Facilities for Sewered Small
Communities (Oct. 1977) 1009 ~
Municipal Sludge Landfills (Oct 1978) 1010 ~
Sludge Treatment and Disposal (Oct. 1979) 1011 ~
Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems (Oct 1980) .... 1012 ~
Land Treatment of Municipal Wastewater (Oct 1981) 1013 ~
Dewatering Municipal Wastewater Sludges (Oct. 1982) 1014 ~
• Municipal Wastewater Stabilization Ponds (Oct. 1983) 1015 ~
• Land Application of Municipal Sludge (Oct. 1983) 1016 ~
TECHNICAL CAPSULE REPORTS
First Progress Report: Wellman-Lord S02 Recovery Process—Flue
'Gas Desulfurization Plant V'. . . . 2011 ~
Double Alkali Flue Gas Desulfurization System Applied at the
General Motors Parma, OH Facility 201 6 ~
Recovery of Spent Sulfuric Acid from Steel Pickling Operations 201 7 ~
Fourth Progress Report: Forced Oxidation Test Results at the EPA
Alkali Scrubbing Test Facility 2018 ~
Particulate Control by Fabric Filtration on Coal-Fired
Industrial Boilers 2021 ~
Bahco Flue Gas Desulfurization and Particulate Removal System .... 2022 ~
First Progress Report. Physical Coal Cleaning Demonstration at
Homer City, PA 2023 ~
Acoustic Monitoring to Determine the Integrity of Hazardous
Waste Dams 2024 ~
Restoration of Medical Lake (Washington) 2025 ~
Restoration of Lake Temescal (California) 2026 ~
Lake Restoration in Cobbossee Watershed (Maine) 2027 ~
Disposal of Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastes. Shawnee
Field Evaluation 2028 ~
Adipic Acid-Enhanced Lime/Limestone Test Results at the
EPA Alkali Scrubbing Facility 2029 ~
• Environmental Controls at a Secondary Smelter 2030 ~
SEMINAR PUBLICATIONS
Benefit Analysis for Combined Sewer Overflow Control 4013 ~
BROCHURES
Environmental Pollution Control Alternatives Centralized Waste
Treatment Alternatives for the Electroplating Industry 5017 ~
• Environmental Pollution Control Alternatives' Sludge
Handling, Dewatering, and Disposal Alternatives for
the Metal Finishing Industry 5018 ~
HANDBOOKS
Industrial Guide for Air Pollution Control (June 1978) 6004 ~
Continuous Air Pollution Source Monitoring Systems (June 1979) • . . 6005 ~
Remedial Action at Waste Disposal Sites (June 1982) 6006 ~
Identification/Correction of Typical Design Deficiencies at
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities (Oct. 1982) 6007 ~
INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION CONTROL MANUALS
Pulp and Paper Industry—Part 1/Air (Oct. 1976) . 7001 ~
SUMMARY REPORTS
Control and Treatment Technology for the Metal finishing
Industry Series Sulfide Precipitation 8003 ~
Sulfur Oxides Control Technology Series: FGD Dual
Alkali Process .............................. 8004 O
Sulfur Oxides Control Technology Series: FGD Magnesium
Oxide Process .............................. 8005 O
Sulfur Oxides Control Technology Series: FGD Lime/Limestone
Processes 8006 ~
Control and Treatment Technology for the Metal Finishing
Industry Series: Ion Exchange 8007 ~
Control and Treatment Technology for the Metal Finishing
Industry Series: In-Plant Changes 8008 ~
Sulfur Oxides Control Technology Series: FGD Spray
Dryer Process 8009 ~
EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS
Short-Term Tests for Carcinogens, Mutagens, and Other
Genotoxic Agents 9003 ~
Environmental Assessment Perspective on the Emerging
Oil Shale Industry 9005 ~
Environmental Pollution Control Alternatives: Municipal
Wastewater 5012 ~
Environmental Pollution Control Alternatives: Economics of Wastewater
Treatment Alternatives for the Electroplating Industry 5016 ~
ATTENTION PUBLICATION USERS
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Although these publications will be distributed on a no-cost-basis, any request for more than five documents total, or for more than one copy of a single document must be
accompanied by written justification, preferably on organization letterhead. In the event your order cannot be filled as requested, you will be contacted and so advised.
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