Polychlorinated biphenyls in selected sites in Pasig river and Laguna lake in the Philippines before and after a big flood event investigated under the UNU East Asia regional POPs monitoring project

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 407-411

  Santiago, Evangeline C ^a   Rivas, Fritzi ^a  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Flooding event; Polychlorinated biphenyls; River and lake pollution; UNU POPs monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CONTAMINATED WATER; EAST ASIA; FLOOD EVENT; MONITORING ACTIVITIES; PCB CONCENTRATION; PHILIPPINES; RIVER SITES; SAMPLING PERIOD; SAMPLING SITE; UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITIES;

LAKES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODING; LAKE; METHODOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODS; LAKES; PHILIPPINES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84864624440     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-012-0677-9     Document Type: Article

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