The water quality of the River Thame in the Thames Basin of south/south-eastern England

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 360, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 254-271

  Neal, Colin ^a   Neal, Margaret ^a   Hill, Linda ^a   Wickham, Heather ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Aluminium; Aylesbury; Barium; Carbon dioxide; Chalk; Clay; Dissolved oxygen; Fractal; Iron; Major ions; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Sewage; Strontium; Thame; Thames; Trace metals; Urgent; Water framework directive; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; CATCHMENTS; DATA ACQUISITION; EFFLUENTS; FRACTALS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; IRON; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STRONTIUM;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MAJOR IONS; TRACE METALS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

WATER QUALITY;

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUND WATER; ION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; TRACE METAL; ANION; BORON; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; METAL;

BEDROCK; RUNOFF; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRIBUTARY; TYPOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLAY; DATA ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; SEWAGE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

AYLESBURY; BUCKINGHAMSHIRE; CANADA; CHALK RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; THAMES BASIN; THAMES RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIONS; BORON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33646572142     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.039     Document Type: Article

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