Fingerprinting sources of bacterial input into small residential watersheds: Fate of fluorescent whitening agents

Environmental Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 228-232

  Boving, Thomas B ^a   Meritt, Debra L ^a   Boothroyd, Jon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence spectrometry; Fluorescent whitening agents; Humic acid; Rhode Island, USA; Septic systems

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; SEWAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SEWAGE WATERS; FLUORESCENT WHITENING AGENTS (FWA);

GEOLOGY;

FECAL COLIFORM; FLUORESCENCE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER WATER; TRACER; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4344570301     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-004-0988-1     Document Type: Article

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