Scheduled maintenance of a modern
BioArgus-W system of water source toxicity
monitoring at water supply station of St. Petersburg is carried out twice a week.
Existence of automatic module of the daynight light regime together with the additional
shading covering gave us a chance to develop
algorithm for automatic analysis of circadian HR
rhythms. A new mathematical approach and
algorithm for the self-diagnosis to use for
BioArgus-W animals were further developed
including VarPulse® software with a new selfdiagnosis module (Ivanov et al. 2012). Such
modernization of the system utilizing a real-time
analysis of circadian rhythms in crayfish has
significantly increased the accuracy of the total
toxicity estimation at the water intakes of water
supply stations along with a significant simplification of its operation (Ivanov et al. 2012; Kurakin et al. 2015).
For ensuring ecological safety of drinking
water supply of the population, the following
recommendation complex was developed
(Makhnev et al. 2006):
• Regulations of work of waterworks of St.
Petersburg in the case of toxic substances
detection in water.
• System of ensuring safe water supply in the
case of toxic substances detection in water of
water intake.
10.5 The Bioelectronic System
for the Control
of Toxicological Safety
of Biologically Treated
Effluents Dumped by SouthWest Waste Treatment Plant
(SWWTP) SUE Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg into the Neva Bay
SWWTP discharges biologically treated effluent
(BTE) into the Neva Bay, which refers to commercial fishing waters of the I category. That
imposes extra requirements to the city wastewater
treatment plants operation; in particular, to
production monitoring methods and the company
self-inspection, as the effluents discharged into
natural water bodies. In the SWWTP, crayfish
could serve for the chronic effects diagnostics as a
kind of prognostic assessment of the environment
quality for the biota. SUE “Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg” jointly with the Saint-Petersburg
Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety
Russian Academy of Sciences has setup biomonitoring system for Wastewaters (BioArgus-WW)
to provide the function of the BEWS for quality
control of biologically treated effluents.
The main purpose of such system development is a real-time monitoring of toxicological
safety of BTE discharged by SWWTP for the
Neva Bay aquatic organisms.
The practical significance of this biomonitoring system based on BioArgus-WW is the possibility of its application at SWWTP:
– as the information basis of an automated
system for continuous displaying objective
data on safety of BTE discharged into the
Neva Bay (for example, via Internet) to
interested state authorities and the public;
– as an efficient information and measuring
system for preparing decision-making on
wastewater treatment process;
– as a tool for the accumulation and storage of
objective data showing how to improve the
existing regulatory requirements to BTE
quality both in terms of the nomenclature and
contaminant level.
The structure and main principles of the
functioning of the automatic biomonitoring system BioArgus-WW are the similar to those discussed above the BioArgus-W system, but has
some differences in the species of crayfish used
as test organisms.
BioArgus-WW uses six male crayfish and two
to three fishes (carassius). The quality of treated
effluent at SWWTP is checked by the fish health
condition and crayfish heartbeat. The crayfish
live in aquaria with treated effluents flows
through.
If the quality of water where the crayfish live
greatly deteriorates, BioArgus-WW generates an
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BioArgus-W system of water source toxicity
monitoring at water supply station of St. Petersburg is carried out twice a week.
Existence of automatic module of the daynight light regime together with the additional
shading covering gave us a chance to develop
algorithm for automatic analysis of circadian HR
rhythms. A new mathematical approach and
algorithm for the self-diagnosis to use for
BioArgus-W animals were further developed
including VarPulse® software with a new selfdiagnosis module (Ivanov et al. 2012). Such
modernization of the system utilizing a real-time
analysis of circadian rhythms in crayfish has
significantly increased the accuracy of the total
toxicity estimation at the water intakes of water
supply stations along with a significant simplification of its operation (Ivanov et al. 2012; Kurakin et al. 2015).
For ensuring ecological safety of drinking
water supply of the population, the following
recommendation complex was developed
(Makhnev et al. 2006):
• Regulations of work of waterworks of St.
Petersburg in the case of toxic substances
detection in water.
• System of ensuring safe water supply in the
case of toxic substances detection in water of
water intake.
10.5 The Bioelectronic System
for the Control
of Toxicological Safety
of Biologically Treated
Effluents Dumped by SouthWest Waste Treatment Plant
(SWWTP) SUE Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg into the Neva Bay
SWWTP discharges biologically treated effluent
(BTE) into the Neva Bay, which refers to commercial fishing waters of the I category. That
imposes extra requirements to the city wastewater
treatment plants operation; in particular, to
production monitoring methods and the company
self-inspection, as the effluents discharged into
natural water bodies. In the SWWTP, crayfish
could serve for the chronic effects diagnostics as a
kind of prognostic assessment of the environment
quality for the biota. SUE “Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg” jointly with the Saint-Petersburg
Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety
Russian Academy of Sciences has setup biomonitoring system for Wastewaters (BioArgus-WW)
to provide the function of the BEWS for quality
control of biologically treated effluents.
The main purpose of such system development is a real-time monitoring of toxicological
safety of BTE discharged by SWWTP for the
Neva Bay aquatic organisms.
The practical significance of this biomonitoring system based on BioArgus-WW is the possibility of its application at SWWTP:
– as the information basis of an automated
system for continuous displaying objective
data on safety of BTE discharged into the
Neva Bay (for example, via Internet) to
interested state authorities and the public;
– as an efficient information and measuring
system for preparing decision-making on
wastewater treatment process;
– as a tool for the accumulation and storage of
objective data showing how to improve the
existing regulatory requirements to BTE
quality both in terms of the nomenclature and
contaminant level.
The structure and main principles of the
functioning of the automatic biomonitoring system BioArgus-WW are the similar to those discussed above the BioArgus-W system, but has
some differences in the species of crayfish used
as test organisms.
BioArgus-WW uses six male crayfish and two
to three fishes (carassius). The quality of treated
effluent at SWWTP is checked by the fish health
condition and crayfish heartbeat. The crayfish
live in aquaria with treated effluents flows
through.
If the quality of water where the crayfish live
greatly deteriorates, BioArgus-WW generates an
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