Workshop on establishment of effluent guidelines and standards in CARICOM/CEHI member states

ABSTRACT

As part of activities included in a CEHI/CARICOM/UNDP Regional Sewage Disposal Studies Project, two workshops on the Establishment of Effluent Guidelines and Standards in CARICOM/CEHI Member States were convened in Trinidad and Jamaica from December 3-5 and 7-9, 1992. These two workshops were a follow up to a two-day workshop on the Technological and Policy Implications of Effluent and Ambient Guidelines in the Caribbean, held in CEHI in St. Lucia from 5-6 June 1991. These workshops were convened to address four immediate objectives of the Project in a broad sense 1) to develop technology based effluent standards and guidelines for sewage effluent disposed of in Caribbean waters; 2) to formulate technological options for sewage and sewage sludge collection, treatment and disposal; 3) to assist in the rehabilitation and improvement in the operation of treatment facilities; 4) to develop water quality standards for beaches