Fate of 4-nonylphenol and 17β-estradiol in the Redwood River of Minnesota

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 860-868

  Writer, Jeffrey H ^a,b   Ryan, Joseph N ^b   Keefe, Steffanie H ^a   Barber, Larry B ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-NONYLPHENOL; ADDITIVE CONCENTRATIONS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BED SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; MINNESOTA; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NEGATIVE VALUES; PARENT COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE VALUE; SINGLE PROCESS; TARGET COMPOUND; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODEGRADATION; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; PHENOLS; RATING; SORPTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WOOD;

RIVERS;

4 NONYLPHENOL; BROMIDE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; RIVER WATER;

ALCOHOL; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BROMIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RESEARCH WORK; SURFACE WATER; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CYCLE;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTRADIOL; MINNESOTA; PHENOLS; PHOTOLYSIS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MINNESOTA; REDWOOD RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855919689     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2031664     Document Type: Article

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