Detection of pharmaceuticals and other personal care products in groundwater beneath and adjacent to onsite wastewater treatment systems in a coastal plain shallow aquifer

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 216-223

  Del Rosario, Katie L ^a,b   Mitra, Siddhartha ^a   Humphrey, Charles P ^a   O'Driscoll, Michael A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b East Carolina University Department of Geological Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; PPCPs; Septic systems

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; SEPTIC TANKS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREATMENTS; ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; PPCPS; RESIDENTIAL WASTEWATERS; SEPTIC SYSTEM;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

CAFFEINE; COSMETIC; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GROUND WATER; HOMOSALATE; IBUPROFEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHARMACEUTICAL AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER POLLUTION; COASTAL ZONE; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; WASTE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

GROUNDWATER; PPCPS; SEPTIC SYSTEMS;

COSMETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84899673293     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.135     Document Type: Article

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