Patrick J. Phillips

TL;DR: Findings suggest that current manufacturing practices at these PFFs can result in pharmaceuticals concentrations from 10 to 1000 times higher than those typically found in WWTP effluents.

TL;DR: Assessment of the relative contribution of CSO bypass flows and treated wastewater effluent to the load of steroid hormones and other wastewater micropollutants from a WWTP to a lake finds that concentrations of hormones and many WMPs in samples from treated discharges can increase with increasing flow due to decreasing removal efficiency.

TL;DR: It is suggested that septic systems serving institutional settings and densely populated areas in coastal settings may be locally important sources of micropollutants to adjacent aquifer and marine systems.

TL;DR: Data from the Kisco River indicate that the relation between storm discharge and pesticide concentrations varies among compounds, in part because of variation in seasonal application patterns, and the importance of stormflow sampling throughout the year in assessing pesticide fate and transport in urbanized, developed areas.

TL;DR: This study evaluates the behavior of gadolinium, a rare earth element utilized as a contrasting agent in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), through four full-scale metropolitan STPs that utilize several biosolids thickening, conditioning, stabilization, and dewatering processing technologies.