Marine Chemist

Objectives; (1) To determine the toxic effects of waste waters on marine life; (2) To determine toxic chemical compounds present in waste streams; (3) Encourage company representatives to improve quality of waste water. Procedures: (1) Collect water samples periodically from company's five waste outfalls and determine the toxicity of various forms of marine life and run a chemical analysis on the waste waters. (2) Meet with Sheffield Steel Corporation representatives periodically to discuss our findings on the waste waters and encourage corrections to any pollution problems. Findings: Sheffield Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of Armco Steel Corpo-ration, discharges wastes to the Houston Ship Channel via five outfalls consis-ting of the following: sanitary wastes from the mill employees, a rust colored waste high in iron oxides from various points in the plant, two waste streams consisting of cooling waters and wastes from the plant's by-product coking operations. The sanitary wastes are treated by means of a standard trickling filte