SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1989
STP16817S

Evaluation of a Chronic Estimation Toxicity Test Using

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Traditionally, chronic toxicity tests have utilized life-cycle tests or early-life-stage tests. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's national “Policy for the Development of Water Quality-Based Permit Limitations for Toxic Pollutants” and the associated “Technical Support Document for Water Quality-Based Toxics Control” emphasized development of less-expensive chronic estimation testing alternatives for National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) effluent testing requirements.

Mysid seven-day short-term chronic estimation tests, developed in accordance with EPA water quality-based effluent testing, were conducted with the reference toxicants potassium dichromate (hexavalent chromium) and sodium pentachlorophenate (pentachlorophenol). The seven-day estimated chronic values (MATCs) of the three tests ranged between 0.49 and 0.69 mg/L Cr+6 for hexavalent chromium and from 298 to 702 μg/L PCP for pentachlorophenol tests. The mean (± SD) MATC values for hexavalent chromium was 0.62 (±0.12) mg/L with a coefficient of variation of 19.4%, while the mean MATC (±SD) for pentachlorophenol was 498 (±202) μg/L with a coefficient of variation of 40.5%.

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Goodfellow, WL
EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., Hunt Valley/Loveton Center, Sparks, MD
Rue, WJ
EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., Hunt Valley/Loveton Center, Sparks, MD
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Developed by Committee: E47
Pages: 333–344
DOI: 10.1520/STP16817S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5088-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1253-7