Chlorine dioxide is a ...
Published by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
Chlorine dioxide is a generally good disinfectant that does not produce much chlorinated DBPs but it does produce oxidized DBPs. It is also required to be produced on site, and it does not leave a good residual in distribution, and produces chlorate and chlorite DBPs. It is also not very good at detoxifying algal toxins.