Pollutant fate and spatio-temporal variability in the choptank river estuary: Factors influencing water quality

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2096-2108

  Whitall, David ^a   Hively, W Dean ^b,c   Leight, Andrew K ^a   Hapeman, Cathleen J ^b   McConnell, Laura L ^b   Fisher, Thomas ^d   Rice, Clifford P ^b   Codling, Eton ^b   McCarty, Gregory W ^b   Sadeghi, Ali M ^b   Gustafson, Anne ^d   Bialek, Krystyna ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Chesapeake Bay; Choptank River; Copper; Herbicide; Nitrate; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; ANALYTE CONCENTRATION; ANTIFOULING; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATRAZINES; BASEFLOWS; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHOPTANK RIVER; COPPER LOADING; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; DELIVERY PATHWAYS; FEDERAL CLEAN WATER ACT; GROUNDWATER TRANSPORT; HERBICIDE RESIDUES; IMPAIRED WATER; METOLACHLORS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SAMPLING STATIONS; SIMAZINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIFOULING PAINT; AQUACULTURE; ARSENIC; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARIES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HERBICIDES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; PORPHYRINS; RESTORATION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WEED CONTROL;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; ATRAZINE; CHLOROPHYLL A; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDE RESIDUE; METOLACHLOR; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; SIMAZINE;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HERBICIDE; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; RIVER POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SEAWATER; UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHOPTANK RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949264151     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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