Highways Agency Report
Original Record
Shelfmark: HA Room 114-117, Heron House, Bedford. Runoff A40
Personal author: Ellis J B
Title: Transport and the environment: effects of organic
pollutants on water quality
Publisher: J.CIWEM, 1997
Physical description: 4 leaves, charts
Price: Unpriced
Series: SSR Water Library, Runoff A40
Notes - general: Abstract: The eighteenth report of the Royal
Commission on Environmental Pollution made no
reference to any potential environmental impacts
resulting from runoff pollution associated with
transport activities. This paper identifies the
magnitude and extent of pollution associated with
discharge from various transport sources and and
identifies solids, metals, hydrocarbons, herbicides
and de-icing agents as the principal contaminats of
environmental concern. The impacts of these
pollutants on the recieving water are reviewed. They
are primarily associated with highways which have a
hogh traffic density, and herbicides are considered to
be the only potential and widespread hazard to
groundwaters. Highway and airport runoff are shown to
have both acute and chronic effects on biotic
diversity and organism mortality rates, although these
effects appear to be largely confined to reaches
immediately downstream from the discharge outfalls.
Notes - general: Article taken from J. CIWEN 1997. 11, June.
Keyword: Road Runoff
Keyword: Water Pollution
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