Chemical and biological monitoring 1997 annual report for Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd

"December 1997".

Project Number: Biomonitoring of Newsprint Mill Wastewater for Norske Skog (formerly Fletcher Challenge Paper, and previous to that, Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd) – YH/6/21 and YH/6/21/3.

MDFRC item.

For listing of associated publications, see Biomonitoring of Newsprint Mill Wastewater for Norske Skog Part 1 (annual reports) and Part 2 (presentations and scientific publications).

To undertake biological and chemical monitoring of ANM’s wastewater discharged to the River Murray in accordance with New South Wales Environment Protection Agency Licence No.01272; Sections W10 (Ecotoxicological and Biological Monitoring) and W11 (River Environment Monitoring Surveys) to April 1997; and, Sections W9 (Long term bioaccumulation monitoring using fish) and W10 (Microbial oxidation of manganese on artificial substrates) for May 1997 to April 1998. The null hypothesis tested in all cases "that there is no difference between control water and wastewater treatments." Some of the work is incomplete at this stage and will be finalised by June 30 1998, for inclusion in the 1998 Annual Report.