Vocabulary Term Details

Pollutant load

Definition (http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?ns=1&cp=6465)

The amount of stress placed upon an ecosystem by pollution, physical or chemical, released into it by man-made or natural means. (Gemet)

Preferred Units: N/A

Scope Note:
N/A

Broader Terms	Narrower Terms	Related Terms
Water pollution	N/A	River Quality Objectives Wastewater Wastewater treatment

This term is used for the following terms:
Biochemical oxygen demand
Biological oxygen demand
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
Chemical oxygen demand
COD (chemical oxygen demand)
Total oxygen demand

Approved Date
24-Jun-2013

Items having a keyword or observed-property relationship to this subject term

1993 general quality assessment (GQA) Cornwall area
1994 general quality assessment (GQA) Cornwall area
A report on the River Chew at Chewton Mendip, 6th August 1992
A second stage evaluation of the Grant YSI3815 Water Logger
A study of benthic macroinvertebrate communities of fifteen Norfolk Broads during summer 1990
A study of the use of Glycol-based de-icers at RAF Lyneham and their impact on local watercourses during the winter of 1999/2000
An investigation into the incidence of spurting from weeping wall slurry stores
An investigation into the water quality of the River Waldon during wet weather
An investigation to determine possible causes of poor water quality downstream of Chagford STW (WSTW6046B)
Coombe Valley Stream RE non-compliance (BOD) wet weather sampling : final report
Cornwall area farm campaign : catchment 27a : River Neet - Langford Bridge to Strat Confluence
Discharge consent review for Pen Mill (Yeovil) STW
East Looe river : river ecosystem (RE) non-compliance investigation : final draft report
Equipment for monitoring alternatives to biochemical oxygen demand and suspended solids (427/1/HO) : interim report
Eutrophication in controlled waters in the Warwickshire Avon catchment (final report). Vol 1 : report and executive summary
Eutrophication in controlled waters in the Warwickshire Avon catchment (final report). Vol 2 : appendices
General Quality Assessment (GQA) Devon Area 1994
General Quality Assessment (GQA) North Wessex Area 1994
General Quality Assessment (GQA) South Wessex Area 1994
Guide to groundwater vulnerability mapping in England and Wales
Investigation into failures of the River Dalch from Canns Mill Bridge to below Lapford sewage treatment works (2001)
Investigation into farm pollution at Wheddon Cross (1999)
Monitoring of the River Burn upstream and downstream of Burnham Market sewage treatment works 1999
National Rivers Authority river quality survey GQA assessment 1993 Nothumbria and Yorkshire Region. Part 1 Reach classification : Freshwater rivers and canals
Nitrification rates in rivers and estuaries
Non-compliance of the Bidwell Brook with river quality objectives
Non-compliance with water quality objectives on the Croyde stream (upper catchment)
Possible replacements for the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) test and suspended solids as measures of effluent and water quality
Report for Anglian Water, NRA Unit on the inclusion of storm water overflows into the Orwell Estuary model, and its use to predict limits for SWO discharges
Report for Anglian Water, NRA Unit on the uses of the Orwell and the Stour Estuaries and the use of the mathematical model to derive long term consent limits for all inputs to Orwell Estuary
Report for Anglian Water, plc on the use of the Orwell Estuary mathematical model to derive long term consent limits for Cliff Quay STW
River quality in England and Wales : a report of the 1990 survey
River quality survey NRA Northumbria and Yorkshire region GQA assessment 1994. Part 1 Reach classification. Freshwater rivers and canals
River quality survey NRA Northumbria and Yorkshire region GQA assessment 1994. Part 2 sample point report
Tamar Lakes project 2001 : initial assessment of nutrient data to identify pollution sources, assess the effect of Tamar Lakes on the downstream water quality and to recommend future monitoring requirements
The evaluation of an hydrolab DS3 submersible water quality monitor
The evaluation of Grant/YSU 3800 water quality monitor

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Vocabulary Term Details

Pollutant load

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