ABSTRACT
Two intensive monitoring studies conducted at the Georgia-Pacific facilities at Leaf River, MS and Brunswick, GA showed the absence (within the limits of detection) of TCDD/F, trisubstituted and higher chlorophenols, and acrolein in any of the process sewers. The eighteen sampling episodes conducted at Leaf River allowed correlations to be drawn among the various contaminant profiles. For example, there was a strong BOD-COD relationship in the pulp mill sewer, suggesting that the carbon in the pulp mill sewer (or a fixed fraction thereof) is biodegradable. Also, AOX and COD in the final effluent were strongly correlated, suggesting that variations in each parameter were governed by process changes.
