Assessment of the intrinsic bioremediation capacity of an eutrophic river sediment polluted by discharging chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons: A compound-specific isotope approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5263-5269

  Kuhn, Thomas K ^a,e   Hamonts, Kelly ^b,c   Dijk, John A ^c,f   Kalka, Harald ^d   Stichler, Willibald ^a   Springael, Dirk ^c   Dejonghe, Winnie ^b   Meckenstock, Rainer U ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f BioSoil R and D BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; CHLOROETHENES; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DECHLORINATION PRODUCTS; DICHLOROETHENE; EUTROPHIC RIVER; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NATURAL ATTENUATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RAYLEIGH; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STUDY SITES; VINYL CHLORIDES;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN; POLLUTION; REACTION KINETICS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER ANALYSIS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DECHLORINATION; DISCHARGE; EUTROPHICATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SURFACE WATER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DILUTION; EUTROPHICATION; INTRINSIC BIOREMEDIATION; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVER SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

BELGIUM; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLEMISH BRABANT; VILVOORDE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650483700     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803600s     Document Type: Article

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