GENERAL EFFLUENT STANDARDS

Schedule - VI, Part A, GSR 801(E) dt. 3 1.12.93.

Parameter

Unit

Standards Inland surface water

All efforts should be made to remove colour and unpleasant odour as far as practicable.

Public sewer
-

Land for irrigation

Marine coastal areas

1.

Colour and odour

All efforts should be made All efforts should be made to to remove colour and remove colour and unpleasant unpleasant odour as far as odour as far as practicable. practicable. a) For process effluent100 b) For cooling water - 10 percent above total suspended matter of influent a) Floatable solidsmax. 3 mm b) Settleable solidsmax. 850 m.

2.

Suspended solids

mg/l, max

100
Shall pass 850 micron IS sieve

600

200

3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Particle size of Suspended solids pH Temperature Oil and grease Total residual chlorine Ammoniacal nitrogen (as N) Total kjeldahl nitrogen (as N) Free ammonia (as NH3) Biochemical Oxygen Demand(3 days at 270 C) Chemical oxygen demand Arsenic (as As)
0

C, max.

5.5 to 9
Shall not exceed 5 C above the receiving water temperature
0

5.5 to 9
-

5.5 to 9
-

5.5 to 9
Shall not exceed 5 0C above the receiving water temperature

mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max

10 1 50 100 5 30 250 0.2

20 50 350 0.2

10 100 0.2

20 1 50 100 5 100 250 0.2

14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

Mercury (as Hg) Lead (as Pb) Cadmium (as Cd) Hexavalent chromium (as Cr ) Total chromium (as Cr) Copper (as Cu) Zinc (as Zn) Selenium (as Se) Nickel (as Ni) Cyanides (as CN) Fluorides (as F) Dissolved Phosphates (as P) Sulphides (as S)
+6

mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max

0.01 0.1 2 0.1 2 3 5 0.05 3 0.2 2 5 2 1 10-7 10-6

90 % survival of fish after 96 h in 100 % effluent

0.01 1 1 2 2 3 15 0.05 3 2 15 5 10-7 10-6

0.2 10-8 10-7

0.01 2 2 1 2 3 15 0.05 5 0.2 15

5 5 10-7 10-6
90 % survival of fish after 96 h in 100 % effluent

Phenolic compounds(as C6H5OH) mg/l, max Radioactive materials: a) Alpha emitters b) Beta emitters Bioassay test Manganese (as Mn) Iron (as Fe) Vanadium (as V) Nitrate nitrogen (as N) Micro curie/ml, max. mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max mg/l, max

28.

29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

90 % survival of fish after 90 % survival of fish after 96 h in 100 % effluent 96 h in 100 % effluent

2 3 0.2 10

2 3 0.2 -

2 3 0.2 20