The Effects of Distillery Wastes and Waters on the Microscopic Flora and Fauna of a Small Creek
- 1 January 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Public Health Reports®
- Vol. 57 (8) , 253-260
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4584018
Abstract
Examination of weekly samples taken over a 16-months period showed that the effluents from whiskey distilleries, unless highly diluted, created a high B.O.D. accompanied by an O2 depletion, in a small creek. Such wastes killed about 90% of the microscopic organisms, bacteria excluded, but allowed the development of a few spp. including some characteristic of high organic, O2-free waters, together with 5 genera of green flagellates and ciliates not heretofore found in abundance by the writer.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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