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Dalapon is
a colorless liquid with an acrid odor sold as sodium or magnesium
salt. Dalapon is a herbicide used to control grasses in a wide
variety of crops, including fruit trees, beans, coffee, corn, cotton
and peas. It is also registered for use in a number of non-crop
applications such as lawns, drainage ditches, along railroad tracks
and in industrial areas.
Haloacetic Acids can be present in chlorinated drinking water as a
chlorinated water disinfectant byproduct formed when the chlorine
reacts with natural organic matter and/or bromide ions in raw water
supplies. Other sources of haloacetic acids in the environment
include waste water from chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing
processes, and industrial cooling water.
For a copy of EPA Method 552.1, click here
Download
a copy of a Horizon Technology Application Note on EPA
Method 552.1
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