Factors determining the attenuation of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in eutrophic river sediment impacted by discharging polluted groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5270-5275

  Hamonts, Kelly ^a,d   Kuhn, Thomas ^b,e   Maesen, Miranda ^a   Bronders, Jan ^a   Lookman, Richard ^a   Kalka, Harald ^c   Diels, Ludo ^a   Meckenstock, Rainer U ^b   Springael, Dirk ^d   Dejonghe, Winnie ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Umwelt und Ingenieurtechnik GmbH (UIT)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION PROCESS; BRUSSELS , BELGIUM; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DECHLORINATION PRODUCTS; EUTROPHIC RIVER; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; RIVERBED SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT PORE WATER; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DELTA 18 OXYGEN; DELTA 2 HYDROGEN; DEUTERIUM; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; DISCHARGE; EUTROPHICATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; INFILTRATION; MICROCOSM; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINATION; DILUTION; EUTROPHIC RIVER SEDIMENT; HYDROGENATION; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL EVALUATION; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MICROCOSM; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

BELGIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; RIVERS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; SENNE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650462893     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8035994     Document Type: Article

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