PMID- 20509608
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100913
LR  - 20181201
IS  - 0013-936X (Print)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 13
DP  - 2010 Jul 1
TI  - Micropollutant loads in the urban water cycle.
PG  - 4877-83
LID - 10.1021/es903823a [doi]
AB  - The assessment of micropollutants in the urban aquatic environment is a 
      challenging task since both the water balance and the contaminant concentrations 
      are characterized by a pronounced variability in time and space. In this study 
      the water balance of a central European urban drainage catchment is quantified 
      for a period of one year. On the basis of a concentration monitoring of several 
      micropollutants, a contaminant mass balance for the study area's wastewater, 
      surface water, and groundwater is derived. The release of micropollutants from 
      the catchment was mainly driven by the discharge of the wastewater treatment 
      plant. However, combined sewer overflows (CSO) released significant loads of 
      caffeine, bisphenol A, and technical 4-nonylphenol. Since an estimated fraction 
      of 9.9-13.0% of the wastewater's dry weather flow was lost as sewer leakages to 
      the groundwater, considerable loads of bisphenol A and technical 4-nonylphenol 
      were also released by the groundwater pathway. The different temporal dynamics of 
      release loads by CSO as an intermittent source and groundwater as well as treated 
      wastewater as continuous pathways may induce acute as well as chronic effects on 
      the receiving aquatic ecosystem. This study points out the importance of the 
      pollution pathway CSO and groundwater for the contamination assessments of urban 
      water resources.
FAU - Musolff, Andreas
AU  - Musolff A
AD  - Department of Hydrogeology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, 
      04318 Leipzig, Germany. andreas.musolff@ufz.de
FAU - Leschik, Sebastian
AU  - Leschik S
FAU - Reinstorf, Frido
AU  - Reinstorf F
FAU - Strauch, Gerhard
AU  - Strauch G
FAU - Schirmer, Mario
AU  - Schirmer M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Benzhydryl Compounds)
RN  - 0 (Phenols)
RN  - 0 (Sewage)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 3G6A5W338E (Caffeine)
RN  - I03GBV4WEL (4-nonylphenol)
RN  - MLT3645I99 (bisphenol A)
SB  - IM
MH  - Benzhydryl Compounds
MH  - Caffeine/analysis
MH  - Cities
MH  - Conservation of Natural Resources
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - Germany
MH  - Phenols/analysis
MH  - Sewage
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Waste Disposal, Fluid
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
MH  - Water Purification/methods
EDAT- 2010/06/01 06:00
MHDA- 2010/09/14 06:00
CRDT- 2010/06/01 06:00
PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/09/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/es903823a [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Jul 1;44(13):4877-83. doi: 10.1021/es903823a.