Item talk:Q230199

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/programs/environmental-health-program/science/new-knowledge-fate-and-transport-emerging",
 "headline": "New Knowledge on the Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants in Rivers",
 "datePublished": "August 14, 2012",
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     "name": "Michael Focazio, PhD",
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     "text": "A detergent degradation product (4-nonylphenol) and a biogenic hormone (17\u03b2-estradiol) added to the Redwood River, Minnesota, were attenuated by biodegradation and other natural processes. These are the findings of a team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Colorado scientists."
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     "text": "The findings, published in Environmental Science and Technology, were based on an experiment in a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) stretch of the Redwood River. The scientists added a florescent dye, a conservative tracer (bromide), and a small amount of the two emerging contaminants being studied to a part of the river that received discharge from a wastewater treatment plant; the discharge already contained the two contaminants. The water was sampled as it moved downstream to evaluate the chemical and hydrologic processes that reduced the concentrations of these chemicals in the stream. The scientists found that several processes were responsible for the attenuation of the two compounds. In the case of 4-nonylphenol, photolysis, biodegradation, and sorption likely are the dominant attenuation mechanisms controlling its fate in the river. For 17\u03b2-estradiol, attenuation was attributed primarily to sorption and biodegradation by bed sediments and a coating of algae and other organic material (biofilm) on the bottom of the river. Because sorption occurs more rapidly than biodegradation, these compounds will bioaccumulate in biofilms, which are an important source of food for stream food webs. Because these compounds were transported kilometers downstream during the slow attenuation process, the additive concentrations from multiple sources and the transformation of parent compounds into degradates (such as detergent compounds into 4-nonylphenol) can explain their environmental persistence."
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     "text": "This study was funded by the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, USGS Hydrologic Research and Development Program, University of Colorado, and National Science Foundation (Grant CBET-0854527)"
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