Nitrate and bisulfide: Monitoring and patterns in Onondaga Lake, New York, following implementation of nitrification treatment

Water Environment Research

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 466-475

  Prestigiacomo, A R ^a   Effler, S W ^a   Matthews, D A ^a   Coletti, L J ^b  

^a UPSTATE FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisulfide; Lake rehabilitation; Nitrate; Nitrification; Redox; Ultraviolet spectrophotometer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SURFACE WATERS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BISULFIDE; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NITRIFICATION TREATMENT; ONONDAGA LAKE , NEW YORK; REDOX; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPECTROPHOTOMETER MEASUREMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

DISULFIDE; LAKE WATER; MERCURY; NITRATE; SULFATE; FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; SULFIDE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NITRIFICATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE WATER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; NEW YORK; NITRATES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SULFIDES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 67649547210     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143008X357156     Document Type: Article

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