A high-resolution historical sediment record of nutrients, trace elements and organochlorines (DDT and PCB) deposition in a drinking water reservoir (Lake Brêt, Switzerland) points at local and regional pollutant sources

Chemosphere

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2444-2452

  Thevenon, Florian ^a   Alencastro, Luiz Felippe de ^b   Loizeau, Jean Luc ^a   Adatte, Thierry ^c   Grandjean, Dominique ^b   Wildi, Walter ^a   Poté, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drinking water reservoir; Organic matter; Organochlorines; Sediments; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATCHMENTS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COPPER; DEPOSITION; EFFLUENTS; GASOLINE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; ORGANOCHLORINES; REGIONAL CONTAMINATIONS; TOXIC INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CHLORPHENOTANE; COPPER; DRINKING WATER; ELEMENT; EUROPIUM; GASOLINE; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SCANDIUM; TITANIUM; TRACE METAL;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; NUTRIENT BUDGET; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANOCHLORINE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT; LAKE; MEASUREMENT; NUTRIENT; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; WET DEPOSITION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84872779102     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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