Quantification of human-associated fecal indicators reveal sewage from urban watersheds as a source of pollution to Lake Michigan

Water Research

Volumn 100, Issue , 2016, Pages 556-567

  Templar, Hayley A ^a   Dila, Deborah K ^a   Bootsma, Melinda J ^a   Corsi, Steven R ^b   McLellan, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Human associated indicators; Sewage; Total maximum daily load; Urban rivers

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; HEALTH RISKS; LAKES; LAND USE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; STORMS;

BACTEROIDES; FECAL COLIFORM; FECAL INDICATORS; HUMAN-ASSOCIATED INDICATOR; LAKE MICHIGAN; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION; TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD; URBAN RIVER; URBAN WATERSHED; URBAN WATERWAYS;

SEWAGE;

AMMONIA; CHLORIDE; RAIN; STORM WATER;

BASEFLOW; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH RISK; HYDROGRAPH; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLING; SEWAGE; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTEROIDES; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESTUARY; FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LAKE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEWAGE; TURBIDITY; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATERSHED; WEATHER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; MICHIGAN; MICROBIOLOGY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

BACTEROIDES; LACHNOSPIRACEAE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMANS; LAKES; MICHIGAN; RIVERS; SEWAGE;

EID: 84969750091     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.05.056     Document Type: Article

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