ABSTRACT
Three programs are discussed in this chapter to illustrate how some of the ideas presented in the previous chapter might apply in a particular situation. The first of these is "Chloride Control Considerations for the Ohio River," a staff report prepared in 1957 for the deliberation of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO). 1 This report, subsequently cited as "Chloride Control," represents the first effort in the United States to view a waste disposal problem on a fully basin-wide basis and to articulate waste discharge at all points with a regional objective. The ORSANCO proposal, which uses a stream standards-effluent standards approach, is followed by an outline of two alternatives. The first alternative bases effluent charges on damage costs and aims at minimizing the costs associated with saline waste disposal. The second alternative is limited to the stream standards approach that underlies the ORSANCO proposal but it incorporates effluent charges.
