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NESP MaC Project 2.4 - Ecological outcomes of wastewater discharges in contrasting receiving environments
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub project "Ecological outcomes of wastewater discharges in contrasting receiving environments". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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Australia’s Waste Policy Action Plan, Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris and Australia’s One Health Master Action Plan all refer to the need for emerging pollutants to be incorporated into contaminant guidelines. Wastewater treatment plants currently report on a limited number of contaminants and lack consistent testing requirements. NESP MaC Scoping Study 1.16 has determined there is a clear and consistent need for data on environmental concentrations of emerging contaminants and an assessment of their impact on ecological communities. This project aims to determine the concentration of emerging pollutants in different wastewater outfall settings, and assess where environmental impacts are greatest. It will also continue to collate, analyse and maintain the information from Water Treatment Authorities on outfall flows, pollutant concentrations and loads and presented annually within the National Outfalls Database.
Outputs
• Measures of CEC (contaminants of emerging concern) in water samples taken from outfall sites [dataset]
• Final project report [written]
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-02-01
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Purpose
- To determine where the environmental impacts resulting from emerging pollutants discharged from different wastewater outfalls settings will be highest.
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2022-06-01 2024-02-28
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- water quality
- emerging contaminants
- ecotoxicology
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/5ba45aa9-55bb-453d-bead-7dc54e2daa42
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MaC Hub Project 2.4
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5ba45aa9-55bb-453d-bead-7dc54e2daa42
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-01T12:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-03-03T09:35:19
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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