1. Pollution

For further information, please refer to the following articles in this treatise:

urban sanitation [1] ;
water pollution control [2] ;
distribution water: unitary treatment [3] ;
wastewater treatment inventory [4].

1.1 Pollution parameters

Wastewater is an extremely complex medium, so a few parameters are used to characterize it. These are generally expressed in mg/L.

Suspended solids (SS): the undissolved fraction of pollution. The interministerial circular of November 4, 1980 on the conditions for determining...

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Bibliography

General works

BECHAC (J.-P.), BOUTIN (P.), MERCIER (B.), NUER (P.) - Traitement des eaux usées - . Eyrolles (1987).
Degrémont - Mémento technique de l'eau - . 10e éd., 2 vol., Lavoisier (2005).
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Standardization

French Standards Association (Afnor)

Site : http://www.afnor.fr

Qualité de l'eau. Détermination de la demande chimique en oxygène (DCO). - NF T90-101 - 2001
Qualité de l'eau. Dosage des matières en suspension. Méthode par centrifugation. - NF T90-105-2 - 1997
Qualité de l'eau. Dosage du phosphore. Dosage spectrométrique...

Regulations

These new French standards are based on Decree no. 94-469 of June 3, 1994, the Decrees of December 22, 1994 and the recommendations of the French Ministry of the Environment dated May 12, 1995 concerning urban wastewater treatment and taking into account the European Community directive, as well as the DE/SDPGE/BLP circular of November 6, 2000 concerning the monitoring of wastewater collection and treatment facilities referred...