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Environmental Quality Standards For Water and Effluent Standards WEPA
Environmental Quality Standards For Water and Effluent Standards WEPA
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Last update:2013-4-10
1. Ambient Standards
Water Quality Standards includes: drinking water standards, drinking water in covered container standards,
groundwater standards and surface water standards.
2. Emission Standards
Concentration
No Parameters Unit
Minimum Maximum
1 Aluminum mg/l 0.1 0.2
2 Ammonia mg/l 0.5 1.5
3 Chloride mg/l 200 250
4 Copper mg/l 1.0 2.0
5 Iron mg/l 0.3 <1
6 Manganese mg/l 0.1 0.5
7 Sodium mg/l 200 250
8 Sulphate mg/l 200 250
9 Hydrogen Sulphide mg/l 0.05 0.1
10 Conductivity us/cm - <1,000
11 Total dissolved solids mg/l 500 600
12 Sodium Chloride mg/l 100 300-350
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D. Priority Parameters
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Value
Suitable Maximum
Platinum-
1 Colour Cobalt 5 15
Physical (Pt-Co)
2 Turbidity JTU 5 20
3 Potential of Hydrogen - 7.0 - 8.5 6.5 - 9.2
4 Iron mg/l ≤0.5 1
5 Manganese mg/l ≤0.3 0.5
6 Copper mg/l ≤1.0 1.5
7 Zinc mg/l ≤5.0 15
8 Sulphate mg/l ≤200 250
Chemical 9 Chloride mg/l ≤250 600
10 Fluoride mg/l ≤0.7 1
11 Nitrate mg/l ≤15 45
Total Hardness
12 mg/l ≤300 500
as CaCO3
Non-carbonate hardness as
13 mg/l ≤200 250
CaCO3
14 Total solids mg/l ≤600 1200
15 Arsenic mg/l None 0.05
16 Cyanide mg/l None 0.1
Toxic chemical
17 Lead mg/l None 0.05
substances
18 Mercury mg/l None 0.001
19 Cadmium mg/l None 0.01
20 Selenium mg/l None 0.01
21 Coliform bacteria MPN/100ml <2.2 <2.2
Bacteria 22 E. coli bacteria - None None
23 Standard plate count Colonies/ml ≤500 -
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Parameters
No Types of Factories
Max BOD6 Max pH Max TSS
1 Canned fish 40 6-9.5 50
2 Beer 30 6-9.5 30
3 Starch 70 6-9.5 80
4 Tannery 40 6-9.5 40
5 Yarn Dyeing 40 6-9.5 40
6 Pharmacy 40 6-9.5 40
3 Zinc mg/l 1
4 Animony mg/l 1
5 Cadmium mg/l 0.03
6 Chromium mg/l 0.5
7 Nickel mg/l 1.0
8 Mercury mg/l 0.005
9 Potential of Hydrogen - 6-9.5
Standard A:
1. Large Farm is more than 400 Livestock Units (LU)
2. Medium Farm is 60-400 LU.
Standard B:
1. Small Farm is 6<60LU.
2. 1LU equals 500kg.
3. Weight of breeding pig = 170kg/head
4. Weight of fattended pig = 60kg/head
5. Weight of nursling pig = 12kg/head
Dichromate
Digestion
Glass Fibre Filter
3 Suspended Solid mg/l 60
Disc
4 Oil and Grease mg/l 15 Extract with solvent
Standards
No Parameters
A B C D E
Not more than (mg/l)
1 Biochemical Oxygen Demand
30 40 50 60 200
Not more than (mg/l)
2 Suspended Solids
30 40 50 50 60
Not more than (mg/l)
3 Settle able Solids
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 -
Not more than (mg/l)
4 Total Dissolved Solids
3000 2500 2000 1500 -
Not more than (mg/l)
5 Chemical Oxygen demand
120 130 150 350 400
Not more than (mg/l)
6 Sulphide
1.0 1.0 3.0 4.0 -
Not more than (mg/l)
7 Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
35 35 40 40 -
Not more than (mg/l)
8 Fat Oil and Grease
20 20 20 20 100
Not more than (degree Celsius)
9 Temperature
40 40 40 40 40
Not more than
10 Potential of Hydrogen
6-9.5 6-9.5 6-9.5 6-9.5 6-9.5
Standards Method of
No Parameters
A B C D E Examination
1 Biochemical Oxygen Not more than (mg/l) Manometric
Demand 30 40 50 60 200 method at 20
Celsius for 5
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