B Barber
Science Coordinator

Partner Primary & Secondary Schools
John Paul, Nazareth, Padua, St John's Reg. Colleges & Partner Primary

Science

Middle Years Science Program - Facts

Middle Years Science Program

 

Water Pollution
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Some Common Drinking Water Contaminants

Arsenic
Asbestos
Atrazine
Barium
Beryllium
Cadmium
Chromium
Coliform (including E. Coli,
Fecal Coliform, Total
Coliform)
Copper
Cryptosporidium
Cyanide
Dalapon
Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
1,1-Dichloroethylene

1,2-Dichloroethane
Dichloromethane (2,4-D)
Disinfection By-Products
Ethylene Dibromide
Fluoride
Giardia
Hexachlorobenzene
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
Lead
Mercury
MTBE
Nickel
Nitrates/Nitrites
Perchlorate
Phthalate, di(2-ethylhexyl)
(DEHP)
Polychlorinated Biphenyls
(PCBs)
Radionuclides
Radon
Secondary Characteristics
(including Turbidity)
Selenium
Simazine
Sulfate
Tetrachloroethylene
Thallium
Trichloroethylene
Vinyl Chloride
Xylenes