PMID- 19809148
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091217
LR  - 20091007
IS  - 0273-1223 (Print)
IS  - 0273-1223 (Linking)
VI  - 60
IP  - 7
DP  - 2009
TI  - Dry and wet weather microbial characterization of the Chicago area waterway 
      system.
PG  - 1847-55
LID - 10.2166/wst.2009.598 [doi]
AB  - The Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) is a man-made channel, which serves the 
      Chicago area for the drainage of urban storm water and the conveyance of 
      secondary treated effluent from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of 
      Greater Chicago's (District) North Side, Stickney and Calumet water reclamation 
      plants (WRPs). A microbial characterization of the CAWS upstream and downstream 
      of the WRPs and from the WRP outfall was initiated by collecting dry and wet 
      weather samples and analyzing for indicators and pathogens. During dry weather, 
      indicator bacteria (fecal coliform [FC], E. coli [EC], enterococci [EN]) were the 
      most abundant microbial species detected in the CAWS compared to pathogens 
      (Salmonella spp [SA], enteric viruses [EV], adenovirus [AV], norovirus [NV] and 
      Giardia and Cryptosporidium). Pseudomonas aeruginosa [PA] levels in the outfall 
      samples were either lower or equivalent to the CAWS. The wet weather samples had 
      a higher frequency of detection of indicator bacteria and pathogens compared to 
      dry weather samples. Overall, the concentrations of pathogens in the CAWS, 
      representing the weather conditions experienced in a recreational year, were 
      relatively low. The study concluded that the presence of pathogens in the CAWS 
      downstream of the WRPs were due to secondary loading of the waterway under wet 
      weather conditions from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and other discharges.
FAU - Rijal, G
AU  - Rijal G
AD  - Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 
      geeta.rijal@mwrd.org
FAU - Petropoulou, C
AU  - Petropoulou C
FAU - Tolson, J K
AU  - Tolson JK
FAU - DeFlaun, M
AU  - DeFlaun M
FAU - Gerba, C
AU  - Gerba C
FAU - Gore, R
AU  - Gore R
FAU - Glymph, T
AU  - Glymph T
FAU - Granato, T
AU  - Granato T
FAU - O'Connor, C
AU  - O'Connor C
FAU - Kollias, L
AU  - Kollias L
FAU - Lanyon, R
AU  - Lanyon R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Water Sci Technol
JT  - Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on 
      Water Pollution Research
JID - 9879497
SB  - IM
MH  - Bacteria/classification/isolation & purification
MH  - Chicago
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fresh Water/*chemistry
MH  - Rain
MH  - Water Microbiology/*standards
MH  - Water Movements
MH  - Water Pollution
MH  - *Weather
EDAT- 2009/10/08 06:00
MHDA- 2009/12/18 06:00
CRDT- 2009/10/08 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/10/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.2166/wst.2009.598 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Water Sci Technol. 2009;60(7):1847-55. doi: 10.2166/wst.2009.598.