Lagrangian mass-flow investigations of inorganic contaminants in wastewater-impacted streams

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2575-2583

  Barber, Larry B ^a   Antweiler, Ronald C ^a   Flynn, Jennifer L ^b   Keefe, Steffanie H ^a   Kolpin, Dana W ^a   Roth, David A ^a   Schnoebelen, Douglas J ^a,c   Taylor, Howard E ^a   Verplanck, Philip L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATIVE CAPACITY; CHEMICAL LOADING; CHEMICAL MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW INVESTIGATIONS; INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN SAMPLING; MASS LOAD; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RECEIVING WATERS; STREAM ECOSYSTEMS; TRACER EXPERIMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WWTP EFFLUENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BISMUTH; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; HYDRAULICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SAMPLING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

RIVERS;

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; INORGANIC COMPOUND; TRACER; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AMMONIUM; BISMUTH; DILUTION; EFFLUENT; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDROLOGY; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; POLLUTANT; STREAM; WASTEWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENT; FLOW RATE; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN SAMPLING; LANDSCAPE; NUTRIENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPRING; STREAM (RIVER); SUMMER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BOULDER CREEK; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 79953245285     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104138y     Document Type: Article

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