Sewage pollution in urban stormwater runoff as evident from the widespread presence of multiple microbial and chemical source tracking markers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 488-496

  Sidhu, J P S ^a,c   Ahmed, W ^a,c   Gernjak, W ^b   Aryal, R ^b,e   McCarthy, D ^d   Palmer, A ^a   Kolotelo, P ^d   Toze, S ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Fecal source tracking; Micro pollutants; Sewage contamination; Stormwater

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; FECAL SOURCES; MICROPOLLUTANTS; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION; STORMWATERS;

CAFFEINE; CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; VIRUSES;

STORMS;

ACESULFAME; CAFFEINE; PARACETAMOL; SALICYLIC ACID;

BIOMARKER; FECES; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; STORMWATER; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL SOURCE TRACKING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; STORMWATER RUNOFF; URBAN AREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER SAMPLING;

ADENOVIRUS; FECAL SOURCE TRACKING; MICRO-POLLUTANTS; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION; STORMWATER;

ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; AUSTRALIA; CITIES; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; HUMANS; METHANOBREVIBACTER; POLYOMAVIRUS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84880281278     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.020     Document Type: Article

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