Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash Spill. 1. Source apportionment using mercury stable isotopes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2092-2099

  Bartov, Gideon ^a,d   Deonarine, Amrika ^b   Johnson, Thomas M ^a   Ruhl, Laura ^c   Vengosh, Avner ^c   Hsu Kim, Heileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINCH RIVER; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG SOURCES; MIXING MODELS; PAPER MILL; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SAMPLING SITE; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPES; TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY; TIME-PERIODS; UPSTREAM FLOW;

COAL ASH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); PAPER AND PULP MILLS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY; RIVER WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLY ASH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RIVER FLOW; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLY ASH; ION EXCHANGE; METHYLATION; PAPER INDUSTRY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COAL ASH; DISASTERS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; RIVERS; TENNESSEE; WATER POLLUTION;

CLINCH RIVER; EMORY RIVER; OAK RIDGE RESERVATION; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874051236     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303111p     Document Type: Article

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