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- Submitted 9/21/01 to Water Environment Federationforpresentation at Watershed 2002 conference, Februar3., 2002. This paper to appear in conference proceedings. Copyrtght 2001 standard CSF® and soybean hull media have been selected for onsite stormwater treatment BMP testing at the Seattle-Tacoma International airport. KEYWORDS NPDES, stormwater, metals, toxicity, filtration, media, BMPs INTRODUCTION This paper presents the results of a best management practice (BMP) screening study designed to test the effectiveness of filtration media to reduce metals and potential toxicity of stormwater runoff. This work is a follow up to needs identified by NPDES stormwater sampling, whole effluent toxicity (WET) testing and source tracing conducted in the recent past by the Port of Seattle (the Port) at Seattle-Tacoma Intemational Airport (Port of Seattle 2000, Tobiason et al, 2000). These past studies indicated that stormwater runoff toxicity was associated with zinc from building materials used in certain drainage areas at the airport. Results of this media filtration screening will be used to select media for onsite testing as a stormwater treatment BMP at the airport. This future testing may include long-term performance monitoring to determine filtration media stability, lifecycle capabilities and maintenance intervals. Though there is considerable volume of literature that evaluates metals and other constituent removal by conventional stormwater BMPs, there are few if any studies that have addressed toxicity as well (ASCE 1999, CWP 2000). Most, if not all stormwater guidelines for BMP performance are based solely on their constituent removal performance on a percentage basis (the difference between influent and…

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