Contaminants migrating from crossed-linked polyethylene pipes and their effect on drinking water odour.

The formation potential of contaminants diffusing from cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X) pipes and their impact on the odour of drinking water was determined. Three types of PE-X material, Pe-Xa, PE-Xb and PE-Xc, were extensively assessed by performing migration tests following EN 1420 and EN 12873-1. Migration waters were analysed for their threshold odour number (TON).

Interlaboratory trial on the analysis of alkylphenols, alkylphenol ethoxylates, and bisphenol A in water samples according to ISO/CD 18857-2.

ISO/CD 18857-2 (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva) describes a new international standard method for the determination of octylphenol, nonylphenol, their mono- and diethyoxylates, and bisphenol A in nonfiltered samples of drinking, ground, surface, and wastewater. The method is based on the extraction of the analytes from an acidified water sample by solid phase extraction, solvent elution, derivatization, and determination by gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. For validation of this method, 14 laboratories from 4 different countries in Europe and Canada participated in an interlaboratory trial to determine the performance characteristics of the method, which are intended for publication in the corresponding standard.

[Distribution pattern of chemicals in surface waters as a reflexion of entry pattern--volatile halogenated hydrocarbons].

The part gives some data about various light volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in surface waters of the industrialized city and its surroundings--the halogenated forms, chloroform and bromoform and the most used solvents trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, tetrachloromethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane. 80% of the concentrations of chloroform, tri- and tetrachloroethylene were in the range of less than 1 microgram l-1, 90% of bromoform, tetrachloromethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane were found to amount less than 0.1 microgram l-1.