ABSTRACT
POPULATION EQUIVALENT Industrial or commercial wastewater generally has a higher organic content than domestic wastewater. Population equivalent calculations equate these concentrated flows with the number of people that would produce a domestic wastewater with that organic load. For a domestic was tewater system, each person served by -the system contributes about 0.17 to 0.2 lbs BOD/day To determine the population equivalent of a wastewater flow, thexefore, divide the lbs BOD/day content by the ibs BOD/day contributed per person (e.g., 0.2 lbs BOD/day).
