Factors regulating the accumulation and spatial distribution of the emerging contaminant triclosan in the sediments of an urbanized estuary: Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-133

  Katz, David R ^a   Cantwell, Mark G ^a   Sullivan, Julia C ^a   Perron, Monique M ^b   Burgess, Robert M ^a   Ho, Kay T ^a   Charpentier, Michael A ^c  

^a Atlantic Ecology Division National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging contaminants; Exposure; Triclosan; Waste water treatment

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS; DISSOLVED WATER; DOMESTIC USE; ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISCHARGE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; EXPOSURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; PRIMARY SOURCES; RHODE ISLAND; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; TRICLOSAN; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WWTP EFFLUENT;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTUARIES; IMPURITIES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER;

EFFLUENTS;

TRICLOSAN;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; PHENOL; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BAY; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ESTUARIES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RHODE ISLAND; TRICLOSAN; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GREENWICH BAY; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869871358     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.052     Document Type: Article

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