Environmental Engineering FOURTH EDITION

Index 479

Newtonian fluids, 120, 177,208
Newton’s First Law, 424
NIMBY (“not in my back yard”), 9-10
Nitrate, 58-60,69,90,97-99,197
water pollution, 55,70,75,235
Nitrification, 90,197
Nitrites, 58-60,70,90,97-99,235
Nitrobacter, 197
Nitrogen oxides, 287
acid rain, 41 8
automobile emissions, 404407,415
control of, 399,403,415,418420
Nitrogen. See also Nutrients
biodegradation, 5740,291
incineration, 287, 304
measurement of, 89-90,97-99
wastewater treatment, 195,197-199,

water pollution, 52-53,69,71-73,75,

209

235,241-242,244
Nitrosomas, 197
Nodes, 256
Noise and Number Index (NNI), 434
Noise pollution, 423-446
aircraft, 432,441-442
background, 427429
community, 434,441-443
control, 441-443
economic effects, 440-441
health effects, 20,437440
in home, 443
industrial, 429,437
laws, 436-437
levels, 430-434
measurement, 426-436
traffic, 434435,441442
transient, 434436
Non-attainment of clean air standards,
417-419
Non-dispersive infrared
spectrophotometry, 379-380
Non-Newtonian fluids, 120,208
Nonpoint source pollution, 5 1,77,

Nuclear fission products. See Fission

Nuclear fuel cycle, 321, 325-331
Nuclear reactions, 317-318,330

233-249

products

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 9,297,

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of, 1987,

Nuisance. See Law, property

Nutrients. See also Nitrogen, Phosphorus,

325,335,346,368

336-337

52-53,55,57,72-73,97,101,172,187,

196,200,233-235,241-242,244-246,

29 1

Occupational Safety and Health Act

oceans

(OSHA), 437-438

ecosystem, 6-7,55-56,404

effect of pollution on, 75-77

hazardous waste dumping, 301,346-347

sludge disposal, 228

solid waste disposal, 263

air pollution, 385,403,421

environmental impact, 17-18,21-23

lai~dfills, 265,270

sludge, 175,208,210,219,230

water treatment, 135,172

water, measurement of, 92

Odors

Offshore Oil Spill Pollution Fund, 346

Oil

pollution, 9-10,53-54,233,244-245,

sulfur, 385,400-401

residues, measurement of, 103-104, 168

Oligotrophic state, 72

Opacity, 382

Operating point, 132-133

Organ dose, 39

Organic carbon. See Carbon, organic

Orthophosphates. See Phosphorus

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)

Overflow rate, 178-179,181-182,195

Overflow. See Product

Ownership rights, 8

Oxidation ponds, 196,206

Oxygen demand. See Biochemical oxygen

Oxygen demanding substances, 52,244

Oxygen probe, 82-84

Oxygen. See Biochemical oxygen demand

346-347

Lands Act, 346

demand

(BOD); Dissolved oxygen (DO)