Settling and Peracetic Acid for End-of-Pipe Treatment of sul1-Carrying Indicator Organisms and Impact on Receiving Water
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 145, Issue 10
Abstract
Combined sewer overflow (CSO) negatively impacts water quality during wet weather. An end-of-pipe treatment train with settleable particle removal and peracetic acid (PAA) disinfection was investigated for treatment of Escherichia coli (E. coli), sul1 gene-carrying E. coli, and total coliform (TC) in simulated CSO effluent. Settling reduced chemical oxygen demand by and total suspended solids by . Overall removals of -log and were achieved for E. coli and TC, respectively, with settling and disinfection, but these removals were not significantly different from removals with disinfection only. After disinfection, the fraction of E. coli carrying the antibiotic-resistance gene (ARG) sul1 increased. Treated samples were spiked into estuarine water to determine regrowth potential of target bacteria following release. After 7 days, E. coli was not detected in reactors with treated CSO, and TC concentrations decreased significantly. This research provides insight into a potential end-of-pipe treatment and suggests that disinfection rather than settling is more effective for microbial treatment of the wastewater component of CSO effluent.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank their utility partner for providing access to influent samples. Funding for this project was provided by a Mark B. Bain Fellowship from the Hudson River Foundation to Alessia Eramo and a grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant No. 1510461). Additional funding support was provided by an Eagleton Fellowship Program to Alessia Eramo. Thanks also to William Morales Medina for his assistance in the lab in support of this project.
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Received: Aug 31, 2018
Accepted: Feb 11, 2019
Published online: Jul 31, 2019
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