Distribution system water age can create premise plumbing corrosion hotspots

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Masters, Sheldon ^a   Parks, Jeffrey ^a   Atassi, Amrou ^b   Edwards, Marc A ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b Camp Dresser/McKee Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper; Corrosion; Lead; Water age

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COPPER; CORROSION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; LEAD; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PLUMBING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; WATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; PREMISE PLUMBINGS; STAGNATION EVENTS; TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER AGES;

LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

CHLORINE; COPPER; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER; LEAD; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM; BRASS; WATER POLLUTANT; ZINC;

COPPER; CORROSION; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; LEAD; PIPE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CORROSION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; WATER AGE; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; HUMAN; SANITATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; WATER SUPPLY;

COPPER; CORROSION; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LEAD; SANITARY ENGINEERING; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; ZINC;

EID: 84938678484     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4747-4     Document Type: Article

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