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assimilation capacity
(English) Capacity of a natural water body to receive wastewaters, without deleterious effects, or toxic materials, without damage to aquatic life or humans that consume the water. To incorporate and convert wast waters without deleterious effects. Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) within prescribed dissolved oxygen limits.

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