Presence and hazards of nutrients and emerging organic micropollutants from sewage lagoon discharges into Dead Horse Creek, Manitoba, Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 445-446, Issue , 2013, Pages 64-78

  Carlson, Jules C ^a,b   Anderson, Julie C ^a   Low, Jennifer E ^a   Cardinal, Pascal ^b   MacKenzie, Scott D ^b   Beattie, Sarah A ^a,b   Challis, Jonathan K ^a   Bennett, Renee J ^a   Meronek, Stephanie S ^a   Wilks, Rebecca P A ^a   Buhay, William M ^a   Wong, Charles S ^a,b   Hanson, Mark L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Hazard assessment; Pesticides; Pharmaceuticals and personal care products; Sewage lagoon wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SETTING; AQUATIC BIOTA; BACKGROUND LEVEL; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DETECTION FREQUENCY; FRESHWATER SYSTEMS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN MEDICINE; LAGOONS DISCHARGE; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MANITOBA , CANADA; MICROPOLLUTANTS; NORTH AMERICAN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; PHOSPHORUS SPECIES; RED RIVER; RURAL COMMUNITY; SEWAGE OUTFALL; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WATERBODIES; WINKLER;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EUTROPHICATION; HAZARDS; LAKES; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEWAGE LAGOONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

NUTRIENTS;

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ATENOLOL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLORPYRIFOS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIMPYLATE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUOXETINE; GEMFIBROZIL; IBUPROFEN; IVERMECTIN; MALATHION; METOPROLOL; NITROGEN; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHORUS; PROPRANOLOL; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; SULFACHLORPYRIDAZINE; SULFADIMETHOXINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGROCHEMICAL; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DISCHARGE; DRUG; EUTROPHICATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAGOON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAGOON; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SEWAGE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MANITOBA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER QUALITY;

CANADA; LAKE WINNIPEG; MANITOBA; RED RIVER [CANADA-UNITED STATES];

ALGAE; EQUIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872407579     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.100     Document Type: Article

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