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Issues in Potable Reuse: The Viability of Augmenting Drinking Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water (1998)
Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER)

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. "Appendix A: Use of Consequence-Frequency Assessment to Evaluate Performance of an Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility." Issues in Potable Reuse: The Viability of Augmenting Drinking Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1998.

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FIGURE A-1 Influent (secondary effluent) virus concentrations on BGM cells at Water Factory 21. The x-axis is a normal probability scale. NOTE: BGM = Buffalo Green Monkey; PFU = plaqueforming units. SOURCE: Reprinted, with permission, from James Montgomery Consulting Engineers, 1979. © 1979 by James Montgomery Consulting Engineers.

ratio of the effluent to influent concentration; however the conditional framework (as shown in Figure A-2) provides a more general approach Formally the probability distribution of the product concentrations may be evaluated as a multiple integral, which can (for the indicated process train) be written as (Stuart and Ord, 1987)

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