Statewide Survey of Hormones and Antibiotics in Surface Waters of Delaware

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 463-474

  Vaicunas, Rachael ^a,b   Inamdar, Shreeram ^a   Dutta, Sudarshan ^a   Aga, Diana S ^c   Zimmerman, Lisa ^c   Tom Sims, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Now Water Resources EIT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Emerging contaminants; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Hormones; Land use; Surface water quality

Indexed keywords

DETECTION FREQUENCY; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD; HORMONE CONCENTRATION; PREDICTED NO-EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; WATER SAMPLES;

ANTIBIOTICS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HORMONES; LAND USE; SURVEYS;

SURFACE WATERS;

ANTIBIOTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; HORMONE; LAND USE; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING WATER; SURFACE WATER; SURVEYING; WATER QUALITY;

DELAWARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875646159     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12031     Document Type: Article

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