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Environmental risk assessment of Polish wastewater treatment plant activity

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Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play an extremely important role in shaping modern society's environmental wellbeing and awareness, however only well operated and supervised systems can be considered as environmentally sustainable. For this reason, an attempt was undertaken to assess the environmental burden posed by WWTPs in major Polish cities by collecting water samples prior to and just after wastewater release points. Both classical and biological methods (Microtox®, Ostracodtoxkit F™ and comet assay) were utilized to assess environmental impact of given WWTP. Interestingly, in some cases, water quality improvement indicated as a toxicity decrement toward one of the bio-indicating organisms makes water worse for others in the systems. This fact is particularly noticeable in case of Silesian cities where heavy industry and high population density is present. It proves that WWTP should undergo individual evaluation of pollutant removal efficiency and tuned to selectively remove pollutants of highest risk to surrounding regional ecosystems. Biotests again proved to be an extremely important tool to fully assess the impact of environmental stressors on water bodies receiving effluents from WWTPs.

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CHEMOSPHERE edition 160, pages 181 - 188,
ISSN: 0045-6535
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2016
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Kudłak B., Wieczerzak M., Yotova G., Tsakovski S., Simeonov, V., Namieśnik J.: Environmental risk assessment of Polish wastewater treatment plant activity// CHEMOSPHERE. -, iss. 160 (2016), s.181-188
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