The implementation of new legislation such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires Member States to gain a better understanding of priority substances entering surface waters. This will include inputs from waste water treatment works as well as from other urban, industrial and agricultural sources. There is currently a lack of available data regarding the magnitude and sources of organic priority substances entering treatment works. As a

Crude influent sewages were collected from 30 English wastewater treatment works representing rural,urban and industrial catchments as part of a screening study to assess the significance of the concentrations of substances from the Water Framework Directive priority pollutants list in crude sewage. Composite samples were analysed for a range of determinands including metals and organic compounds. Of the determinands quantified, the pesticides were

The paper presents a recent evaluation of Cu, Pb, Zn and Cd in soil collected around the decantation pond AURUL (5 and 30 cm depth) and from the Bozanta-Mare village (5 cm depth) situated in its proximity and a comparison with the admitted levels according to the Romanian legislation. The soil was found to be polluted with Cu, Pb and Zn as their contents exceeded the intervention level on large surfaces that could be detrimental to agriculture. The