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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2017 Feb 1;579:1649–1657. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.234

Table 6.

Raw HQs calculated using ECOTOX ECs, listed for analytes where maximum HQ > 0.01, adjusted for estimated bioaccumulation potential.

AnalyteCas Analyte RL N EC NExceed Mean
HQ
Median
HQ
Max
HQ
7723-14-0 Phosphorus 5000 24 400 20 469 316 1403
7704-34-9 Sulfur 3000 25 160,000 25 142 83 517
7439-96-5 Manganese 1000 25 4365 22 33 8.2 343
7440-36-0 Antimony 3000 25 100 3 47 49 59
7440-24-6 Strontium 1000 25 32,000 22 8.1 5.5 32
14,265-44-2 Phosphate (PO4) 25,000 24 94,970 12 1.7 1.0 5.9
7440-62-2 Vanadium 1000 25 1210 7 1.4 0.83 4.8
3380-34-5 Triclosan 0.68 16 1 2 0.99 0.68 3.5
7440-61-1 Uranium 50 22 2700 4 0.46 0.044 3.3
7440-70-2 Calcium 10,000 25 52,000,000 6 0.73 0.75 2.5
7439-95-4 Magnesium 5000 25 27,400,000 2 0.45 0.39 1.6
14,797-55-8 Nitrate (NO3) 88,536 24 22,142,860 1 0.22 0.15 1.0
14,866-68-3 Chlorate (ClO3) 10,000 16 80,000 0 0.19 0.13 0.88
101-20-2 3,4,4-Trichloro
carbanalide
1.1 15 5 0 0.28 0.22 0.58
7440-39-3 Barium 1000 25 200,000 0 0.25 0.25 0.57
15,687-27-1 Ibuprofen 6.9 25 31 0 0.25 0.22 0.57
16,984-48-8 Flouride NA 23 1,221,649 0 0.18 0.16 0.46
15,541-45-4 Bromate (BrO3) 2300 22 30,000,000 0 0.020 < 0.0001 0.44
14,797-65-0 Nitrite (NO2) 32,845 24 460,000 0 0.12 0.071 0.40
7439-93-2 Lithium 5000 25 167,880 0 0.078 0.033 0.27
10,035-10-6 Bromide 5000 24 1,022,270 0 0.065 0.049 0.25
14,808-79-8 Sulfate (SO4) NA 23 1,000,000,000 23 0.039 0.024 0.23
7440-31-5 Tin 1000 25 80,000 0 0.041 0.013 0.22
93,413-69-5 Venlafaxine 6.2 25 183 0 0.041 0.034 0.14
51,384-51-1 Metoprolol 4.7 17 457 0 0.021 0.010 0.083
298-46-4 Carbamazepine 7.1 25 453 0 0.022 0.016 0.079
723-46-6 Sulfamethoxazole 6.5 25 2065 0 0.013 0.0031 0.078
1763-23-1 PFOS 0.13 25 1199 0 0.0036 0.0012 0.040
80-05-7 BPA NA 1 1318 0 0.022 0.022 0.022
335-67-1 PFOA 0.56 25 6138 0 0.0017 0.00056 0.018

See Table 2 for key. Please see discussion of highest HQs in Section 3.5, for important caveats.