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Free Chlorine Distribution System Influent Hold Study Protocol

This document provides an approach that a drinking water system may use to simulate free chlorine decay (and/or disinfection by-product formation (DBP)) in the distribution system.

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Free Chlorine Distribution System Influent Hold Study Protocol (PDF)(8 pp, 587 K, June 2019, 815-B-19-013)