Escherichia coli loading at or near base flow in a mixed-use watershed

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2244-2249

  Gentry, Randall W ^a   McCarthy, John ^a   Layton, Alice ^a   McKay, Larry D ^a   Williams, Dan ^a   Koirala, Shesh R ^a   Sayler, Gary S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TURBIDITY;

ANTECEDENT PRECIPITATION; BASE FLOW; LOADING RATES; SYNOPTIC MONITORING;

WATERSHEDS;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATTLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FLOW RATE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CITIES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PRECIPITATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33845328778     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2006.0243     Document Type: Article

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