Persistence and potential effects of complex organic contaminant mixtures in wastewater-impacted streams

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2177-2188

  Barber, Larry B ^a   Keefe, Steffanie H ^a   Brown, Greg K ^a   Furlong, Edward T ^b   Gray, James L ^b   Kolpin, Dana W ^a   Meyer, Michael T ^a   Sandstrom, Mark W ^b   Zaugg, Steven D ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; COMPLEX MIXTURE; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN SAMPLING; METAL COMPLEXING; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; STEROIDAL HORMONES; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; WWTP EFFLUENT;

AMIDES; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; OLIGOMERS; RIVERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CARBAMAZEPINE; EDETIC ACID; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; PESTICIDE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EFFLUENT; NATURAL ATTENUATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STREAMWATER; SURFACTANT; TRAVEL TIME;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; CORROSION; DRUG MIXTURE; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PHOTOLYSIS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOLUBILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRING; STREAM (RIVER); SUMMER; VELOCITY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IOWA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BOULDER CREEK; IOWA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84874600810     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303720g     Document Type: Article

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