RIVRISK: A model to assess potential human health and ecological risks from chemical and thermal releases into rivers

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 123-132

  Lew, C S ^a   Mills, W B ^a   Wilkinson, K J ^a   Gherini, S A ^a  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

discharges; ecological risk; human health risk; rivers

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

ADULT; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER MODEL; ECOTOXICITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INGESTION; INHALATION; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ECOLOGICAL RISK; HUMAN HEALTH; POLLUTION MODEL; RIVER POLLUTION;

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME DEPOSITION; DERMAL CONTACT; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; GROUNDWATER SEEPAGE; INGESTION; INHALATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0029663908     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00619274     Document Type: Article

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