The Department of Environmental Protection of New York City, regulates the polluting factors that may affect the water quality. As an intern in the chemistry laboratory at the New Town Creek facility, I was involved with the compositing samples from several different sewage treatment plants, testing for the pH and conductivity of each sample, and measuring the effluent samples for chlorine residual. Part of my duties included helping in the analysis of fecal coliform in citywide samples in order to determine the appropriateness of minimal chlorine use and discharge into the receiving waters. The procedures and the difficulties encountered in every step will be presented.

Analysis of compositing samples of various sewage treatment plants at the Newtown Creek facility of New York's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Agency

244th National Meeting (2012)

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