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Control of Taste and Odor in Missouri River Water
Author(s) -
Erdei Joseph F.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1963.tb01175.x
Subject(s) - odor , taste , spring (device) , environmental science , surface runoff , pollution , hydrology (agriculture) , raw water , water pollution , environmental engineering , environmental chemistry , chemistry , engineering , ecology , mechanical engineering , food science , geotechnical engineering , organic chemistry , biology
This article begins with a brief discussion of the sources of pollution of Missouri River water. Several surveys done in 1950 are mentioned, along with the formation of the Missouri River Public Water Association in 1958. In the spring of 1960 a sample of raw and finished water was sent to the Illinois State Water Survey Laboratory, Urbana, Illinois, for chromatographic separation and identification of organic acids present during the spring runoff. The article discusses whether any of the organic acids present could be responsible for the taste and odor problems, whether treatment practices at Omaha, Nebraska, changed the acids, and whether those changes could cause the taste and odor problems that occured during that period.