Combined sewer overflows to surface waters detected by the anthropogenic marker caffeine

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4096-4102

  Buerge, Ignaz J ^a   Poiger, Thomas ^a   Müller, Markus D ^a   Buser, Hans Rudolf ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing Viticulture and Horticulture   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONSIDERATIONS; MASS BALANCE; SEWER OVERFLOWS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS (WWTP);

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SEWERS;

CAFFEINE; SURFACE WATER;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; PHOSPHORUS; SEWERS; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CATCHMENT; EFFLUENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LAKE; SEWER; SEWER OUTFALL; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CAFFEINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; SWITZERLAND; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE GREIFEN; SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 33746731093     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es052553l     Document Type: Article

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