Faecal contamination of water and sediment in the rivers of the Scheldt drainage network

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 243-257

  Ouattara, Nouho Koffi ^a   Passerat, Julien ^a   Servais, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Faecal indicator bacteria; Microbiological water quality; Rivers; Sediment contamination; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BRUSSELS; E. COLI; FAECAL CONTAMINATION; FAECAL INDICATORS; GLUCURONIDASE; HIGH POPULATION DENSITY; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI; MEDIAN VALUE; MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; NON-POINT SOURCE; POINT SOURCES; REPRESENTATIVE POINT; RESUSPENSION EVENTS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER WATER; RUNOFF WATER; SCHELDT; SCHELDT DRAINAGE NETWORK; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SOIL LEACHING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; DRAINAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEACHING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECAL COLIFORM; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CONTAMINATION; FLOW RATE; LEACHING; NITRIFICATION; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SEDIMENT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION;

SCHELDT RIVER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 82455192297     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-1918-9     Document Type: Article

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