Comparison of phosphorus concentrations in coastal plain watersheds served by onsite wastewater treatment systems and a municipal sewer treatment system

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Humphrey, Charles P ^a   Anderson Evans, Eliot ^a   O'Driscoll, Michael ^a   Manda, Alex ^a   Iverson, Guy ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Non point sources; Onsite wastewater; Phosphorus loading

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; COASTAL ZONES; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; LOADING; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RECLAMATION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWERS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL PLAIN WATERSHEDS; NON-POINT SOURCE; ON-SITE WASTEWATER; ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS; PHOSPHORUS LOADING; SURFACE WATER DISCHARGES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

GROUND WATER; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

COASTAL PLAIN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHICATION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; COASTAL PLAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MUNICIPAL SEWER TREATMENT SYSTEM; ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; SOIL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84918818226     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2259-4     Document Type: Article

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