Determining hot spots of fecal contamination in a tropical watershed by combining land-use information and meteorological data with source-specific assays

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5794-5802

  Jent, Justin R ^a   Ryu, Hodon ^b   Toledo Hernández, Carlos ^c   Santo Domingo, Jorge W ^b   Yeghiazarian, Lilit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONTAMINATION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; METEOROLOGY; SEPTIC TANKS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER POLLUTION;

ATELISITE; BIOASSAY; CORRELATION; FECES; LAND USE; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RIVER POLLUTION; TRACKING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FECES CONTAMINATION; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; PUERTO RICO; SEPTIC TANK; SEWER; TOPOGRAPHY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; PUERTO RICO; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTION;

PUERTO RICO;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84878641816     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304066z     Document Type: Article

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