Treatment performance of wastewater lagoons in south yungas province of Bolivia

Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers

Volumn 342, Issue , 2009, Pages 5800-5811

  Muga, Helen E ^a   Mihelcic, James R ^a   Reents, Nathan W ^b   Morales, Santiago ^c   Gemio, Gabriela ^c   Ballard, Meredith ^d   Fuchs, Valerie J ^d   Hanson, Cara M ^d   Johnson, Esther M ^d   Hoyt, Alison M ^e  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b Oficiana: Caranavi ^*  (Bolivia)

^c Universidad Catolica de Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^d MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLIFORMS; MATURATION PONDS; SAN ANTONIO; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TREATMENT PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; LAKES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE LAGOONS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER RESOURCES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 70350141369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41036(342)586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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