 | Vol. 7 No. 1 Summer 1999 |
| A Newsletter About New Jersey's Water Quality Programs |
Short Course on Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Planned for September
by Betty Jane Boros-Russo, Office of Quality Assurance
The DEP and the Hudson/Delaware Regional Chapter (HDC) of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) will co-sponsor a two-day short course on WET testing. The course, which will be held in the Princeton area in September 1999, will cover standards, regulations, policy, guidance, and the technical aspects of implementing the WET program. The curriculum incorporates rationale and information on WET test requirements from USEPA documents, such as the Technical Support Document for Water Quality-Based Toxics Control (TSD), acute and short-term chronic toxicity testing manuals, and Toxicity Reduction Evaluation/Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TRE/TIE) manuals. TIE/TRE procedures will be presented along with TIE case histories. Topics will include the implementation of the WET program based on statutory, regulatory and policy publications; test methods; quality assurance; statistical evaluation techniques; NPDES WET permit development; compliance; and enforcement. To provide a balanced approach, instructors will include members from both the regulatory and regulated community.
Regional issues that will be addressed include:
- Reproducibility of the Ceriodaphnia dubia chronic toxicity test;
- Interpreting real world data sets; how much variability is too much;
- Tools for the review of chronic test reports and results;
- Guidance for the selection of a TRE consultant;
- The status of the national EPA WET program
- In plant toxicity controls for a municipal discharger;
- Discussion of DRBC chronic WET model.
More information on the course will be forthcoming. Any questions may be directed to Betty Jane Boros-Russo of the Office of Quality Assurance at (609) 777-4092 or Dr. Jon Doi of the HDC at (908) 788-8700.
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Last revision Tuesday, June 22, 1999