Ambient Water Quality Guidelines for Chlorophenols

Water Quality

Ambient Water Quality Guidelines for Chlorophenols

12. RESEARCH NEEDS

The guidelines given for aquatic life are recommended as interim, except for PCP, due to the way in which they were estimated. What is needed is one comprehensive experiment which tests all the chlorophenols under the same set of conditions and generates a single regression equation for each chlorophenol based upon pH and temperature.

Nothing is known about the effects of chlorophenols on the industrial uses of water and some research should be undertaken in this field. Similarly, nothing appears to be known about effects on crop plants when chlorophenols are present in the irrigation water and a series of experiments should be conducted in this area.

Synergistic effects of chlorophenols with other organic compounds or with inorganics, especially those which also affect the mitochondrial enzymes, have apparently not been investigated. One would expect some effects in this area and research should be conducted to determine the severity of the response and which other compounds are important.


	Water Quality Ambient Water Quality Guidelines for Chlorophenols 12. RESEARCH NEEDS The guidelines given for aquatic life are recommended as interim, except for PCP, due to the way in which they were estimated. What is needed is one comprehensive experiment which tests all the chlorophenols under the same set of conditions and generates a single regression equation for each chlorophenol based upon pH and temperature. Nothing is known about the effects of chlorophenols on the industrial uses of water and some research should be undertaken in this field. Similarly, nothing appears to be known about effects on crop plants when chlorophenols are present in the irrigation water and a series of experiments should be conducted in this area. Synergistic effects of chlorophenols with other organic compounds or with inorganics, especially those which also affect the mitochondrial enzymes, have apparently not been investigated. One would expect some effects in this area and research should be conducted to determine the severity of the response and which other compounds are important.