Assessing urban stormwater toxicity: Methodology evolution from point observations to longitudinal profiling

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1375-1381

  Grapentine, Lee ^a   Rochfort, Quintin ^a   Marsalek, Jiri ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Ecotoxicity; Sediment; Stormwater management ponds

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDROCARBONS; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; STORM SEWERS; TOXICITY; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AQUATIC HABITATS; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BENTHIC ORGANISMS; CHIRONOMIDS; COMBINED FLOW; DETENTION PONDS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION (CO); H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH WATER; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT (HMW); HIGHWAY RUNOFF; LABORATORY TESTING; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; ONTARIO (CO); POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); SEDIMENT CORES; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; STORM WATERS; STORMWATER DISCHARGES; STORMWATER MANAGEMENT (SWM); SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; TORONTO; TRACE METALS; URBAN STORM WATER;

SEDIMENTATION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; STORM WATER; TRACE METAL;

AMPHIPOD; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENTHOS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAYFLY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PAH; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STORMWATER; TOXICITY; TRACE METAL; WATER COLUMN; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMPHIPODA; ANNELID WORM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOTOXICITY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POND; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CHIRONOMIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; METALS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

AMPHIPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 45549090579     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.261     Document Type: Article

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