BOD measurements at aquaculture farm.

Description

BOD measurements at the inlet to and outlet from water tanks on an aquaculture farm.

Usage

data(BOD)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

BOD

BOD measurements.

source

Source of water (inlet or outlet). See details.

Details

An aquaculture farm takes water from a stream and returns it to the stream after it has circulated through the fish tanks. The owner is concerned that the water may contain heightened levels of organic matter when it is released into the stream after it has circulated in the tanks. He has taken steps to reduce this possibility, i.e., circulated the water rather quickly through the tanks, but is still concerned about the increase in organic material in the effluent. To determine if this is true, he takes samples of the water at the intake and, at other times, downstream from the outlet and measures the biological oxygen demand (BOD) as a measure of the organics in the effluent (a higher BOD at the outlet would imply that organics are taken up from the tanks).

Source

Unknown.