Control of total chloro-s-triazines in conventional drinking water treatment plants

Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-288

  Adams, C D ^a  

^a Dept of Civil Arch/Environ Eng ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Filtration; Ozonization; Pollutants; Potable water; Water treatment plants

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; HERBICIDES; METABOLITES; POTABLE WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ATRAZINE; DRINKING WATER; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HERBICIDE; WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0142156537     PISSN: 1090025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2003)7:4(281)     Document Type: Article

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