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Title:
Treated ballast water and its impact on port water quality
Series:
Technical Reports
Series Issue:
19.1
Publication Date:
18/04/2019
Description:
Overview The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, sponsored by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), came into force on the 8 September 2017. The Convention regulates the treatment of ballast water to address concerns that ballast water facilitates the spreading of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens. Australia amended the Biosecurity Act 2015 in 2017 to ratify the Convention and requires domestic and international ballast water to be managed to the Convention's standards. ABARES was commissioned by the Marine and Aquatic Biosecurity Section in Biosecurity Animal Division to explore the potential impact that the discharge of chemically treated ballast water could have on the water quality of Australian ports. Key Issues * It was found that the environmental concentrations of most by-products of chemical treatment were likely to be below levels that would warrant a management response. * Three compounds were found to potentially exceed environmentally safe levels: dibromoacetonitrile, monochloroacetic acid and dibromoacetic acid. * The findings are based on modelling, so while they are a guide to possible outcomes the report recommends a physical sampling plan be implemented to determine the actual concentrations of discharge chemicals in Australian ports resulting from the use of ballast water management systems.
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ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
SUMMERSON Rupert

BLOOMFIELD Nathaniel

ARTHUR Tony
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence except content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Summerson, R, Bloomfield, N and Arthur, T 2019. Treated ballast water and its impact on port water quality, ABARES, Canberra, April. CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.25814/5cb418652c04f
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ISBN 978-1-74323-431-0

ISSN 189-3128

DOI https://doi.org/10.25814/5cb418652c04f
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