Has the water quality criteria concept outlived its usefulness?

Environmental Toxicology and ChemistryVolume 5, Issue 2 p. 113-115 EditorialFree Access Has the water quality criteria concept outlived its usefulness? R. A. Kimerle, R. A. Kimerle Editor Environmental Toxicology — Aquatics Monsanto Company St Louis, MissouriSearch for more papers by this author R. A. Kimerle, R. A. Kimerle Editor Environmental Toxicology — Aquatics Monsanto Company St Louis, MissouriSearch for more papers by this author First published: February 1986 https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620050201Citations: 4AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. References 1 State of California. 1952 Water Quality Criteria State Water Pollution Control Board Publication No 3 Sacramento, CA 2 McKee, J.E. and H.W. Wolf. 1963 Water Quality Criteria, 2nd ed. State Water Quality Control Board Sacramento, CA 3 U.S. Department of Interior 1968 Water quality criteria 1968 Report of the National Technical Advisory Committee to the Secretary of the Interior Washington, DC 4 National Academy of Sciences. 1972 Water quality criteria 1972 A Report of the Committee on Water Quality Criteria U S Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 5 U.S Environmental Protection Agency. 1976 Quality criteria for water Washington, DC 6 Federal Register. 1978 Water quality criteria 43 21506– 21518 7 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1983 C Stephan, D Mount, D Hansen, J Gentile, G Chapman and W Brungs, eds Guidelines For Deriving Numerical National Water Quality Criteria For the Protection of Aquatic Life And Its Uses Draft 8 U.S House of Representatives. 1980 Implementation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Report by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Review of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation 71 834 O U S Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 9 Macek, K.J.. 1985 Effluent evaluation In G. M. Rand and S. P. Petrocelh, eds, Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology Hemisphere Publications Corporation, New York, NY, pp 636– 649 1 Kimerle, R.A., W.J. Adams and D.R. Grothe. 1986 A tiered approach to aquatic safety assessment or effluents In H. Bergman, R. Kimerle and A. Maki, eds, Environmental Hazard Assessment of Effluents Pergamon Press, Elmsford, NY, pp 247– 264 1 Gilford, J. H.. 1985 Environmental effects assessment of new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act Summer National Meeting, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Seattle, WA 1 U.