Total and methyl mercury transformations and mass loadings within a wastewater treatment plant and the impact of the effluent discharge to an alkaline hypereutrophic lake

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2863-2875

  Gbondo Tugbawa, Solomon S ^a   McAlear, Joseph A ^b   Driscoll, Charles T ^c   Sharpe, Charles W ^d  

^a The Louis Berger Group Inc   (United States)

^b BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

^d O'Brien and Gere   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; DEPOSITION RATES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); SEWAGE; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

HYPEREUTROPHIC LAKES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SECONDARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EPILIMNION; HYPOLIMNION; LAKE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LAKE SEDIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THERMOCLINE; UNITED STATES; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WINTER;

FINGER LAKES; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ONONDAGA LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950920889     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.01.028     Document Type: Article

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