Modeling transport of Escherichia coli in a creek during and after artificial high-flow events: Three-year study and analysis

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2676-2688

  Yakirevich, A ^a   Pachepsky, Y A ^b   Guber, A K ^c   Gish, T J ^d   Shelton, D R ^b   Cho, K H ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Creek; Escherichia coli; High flow; Numerical modeling; Resuspension; Sediment

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WEIRS;

CREEK; E. COLI; HIGH FLOW; HIGH-FLOW EVENTS; LEADING INDICATORS; MODELING TRANSPORT; RE-SUSPENSION; TRANSIENT STORAGE; WATER FLOWS; WATER PULSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BENZOIC ACID; DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINDICATOR; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISCHARGE; EROSION; FECAL COLIFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RESUSPENSION; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMWATER; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; TRACER; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WEIR;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CREEK; DISPERSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW RATE; GEOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STREAM (RIVER); TURBIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84876148076     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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