Scientific Foundations of the Clean Water Era Government Research into Chemical and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, US Public Health Service, 1960-1964

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[Ecology] U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service's Advanced Waste Treatment Research series, issued 1960-1964, which document the federal government's first sustained research program addressing the inadequacy of conventional sewage treatment in an industrial and chemically complex society. Issued following the 1961 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which expanded federal jurisdiction and authorized intensified research into water pollution, these reports establish the technical basis for the transition from sanitation-based infrastructure to chemically and technologically advanced water purification. They address a defined policy failure: primary and secondary treatment systems removed solids and reduced biological oxygen demand but left dissolved contaminants including phosphates, nitrates, synthetic detergents, and industrial chemicals in drinking water supplies. Produced as American waterways including the Potomac River, Lake Erie, and the Cuyahoga River exhibited visible ecological degradation, these publications place federal scientific research within the early formation of national environmental policy and the shift toward water reuse, chemical treatment, and pollution control as federal responsibilities. Archive of twelve issues, all issued by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Environmental Health Series Water Supply and Pollution Control. Advanced Waste Treatment Research reports. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960-1964. all publications issued in original printed wrappers, Environmental Health Series reports with blue-covered summary volumes; all copies bearing a consistent manuscript ownership signature possibly reading "C. Flouhill" to upper covers. This research program preceded the institutional consolidation of federal environmental authority in the mid-1960s and the legislative framework later formalized in the Clean Water Act of 1972, making these reports direct technical antecedents to the statutory standards that followed. The inclusion of reverse osmosis, ion exchange, and adsorption demonstrates early federal investigation into processes that became standard components of municipal and industrial water treatment. Light edge wear, minor toning, and handling marks consistent with use; overall very good condition. A cohesive federal research archive documenting the point at which water pollution control shifted from a localized sanitation issue to a national technological and regulatory problem.…

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Scientific Foundations of the Clean Water Era Government Research into Chemical and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, US Public Health Service, 1960-1964
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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Année de publication
1960
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