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Showing papers in "Science of The Total Environment in 2004"


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TL;DR: Combinations of anaerobic and aerobic treatment processes are found to be efficient in the removal of soluble biodegradable organic pollutants.

1,012 citations


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TL;DR: This study provides the first documentation that many of the organic wastewater-related contaminants that represent a diverse group of extensively used chemicals can survive conventional water-treatment processes and occur in potable-water supplies.

1,009 citations


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TL;DR: Concerns about selenium impacts on aquatic resources in Southeastern Idaho and British Columbia and the growing discomfort among the scientific community with a waterborne criterion has lead the US Environment Protection Agency to consider a tissue-based criterion for Selenium.

761 citations


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TL;DR: Measurements of the concentrations of airborne material near dominant sources are reviewed for both area sources, and for point sources such as sewage and waste treatment works, agricultural practices, and diseased animals.

730 citations


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TL;DR: There was some evidence to suggest that usage data are positively associated with concentrations of pharmaceuticals in effluent and, particularly, with concentrations measured in surface waters below STWs, suggesting that longer range stream transport of some compounds is possible.

603 citations


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TL;DR: The main objectives were to derive a common set of reference real-world driving cycles to be used in the frame of the ARTEMIS project but also in theframe of on-going national campaigns of pollutant emission measurements to ensure the compatibility and integration of all the resulting emission data in the European systems of emission inventory.

592 citations


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TL;DR: There is a need to study the effect on human health of long-term chronic exposure to low levels of Pt compounds, as well as the toxicity of biologically available anthropogenic Pt, in diverse environmental matrices.

586 citations


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TL;DR: The urban contribution of OWCs to streams became progressively muted as streamflow increased, and no significant differences in the concentrations were found during high-flow conditions.

569 citations


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TL;DR: DBPs predictive models are reviewed, their advantages and limitations are identified, and their potential applications as decision-making tools for water treatment analysis, epidemiological studies and regulatory concerns are examined.

545 citations


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TL;DR: The main sources for the load of organophosphates are sewage treatment plants, but not all contribute equivalent to the amount of inhabitants they serve.

420 citations


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TL;DR: Fractionation of samples and differences between concentrations of E1, E2, E3 and EE2 and the estrogenic activity measured by the in vitro bioassay suggested a complexity of mechanisms underlying the biological response that could be attributed only to the investigated molecules.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of organic matter fraction of soil organic matter on growth, cadmium (Cd) uptake and redistribution by sorghum was investigated under controlled environment conditions.

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TL;DR: It appears that agricultural soils and vegetables in Tianjin, especially those from the site located immediately next to an urban district and irrigated with wastewater for several decades, are severely contaminated by PAHs.

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TL;DR: The identification, optimisation, validation, the interpretability and uncertainty aspects of fuzzy rule-based models for decision support in ecosystem management are discussed.

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TL;DR: In vitro toxicological assays show an overall similar mutagenic potency and genotoxic profile for diesel and biodiesel blend emissions, and electron microscopy analysis indicates that PM for both fuels has the same chemical composition, morphology, shape and granulometric spectrum.

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TL;DR: A general 'metal index' for drinking water, which takes into account possible additive effects of N heavy metals on the human health that helps to quickly evaluate the overall quality of drinking waters, is introduced in this paper as MI=?(i=1,N)[C(i)/(MAC)(i)].

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TL;DR: It is revealed that in the arsenic-affected areas of WB, the concentrations of other toxic elements in drinking water and foodstuff should be monitored to evaluate the arsenic poisoning.

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TL;DR: Black bean is the foodstuff that provided the highest ingestion rates of Cu, Mn, Ni and Zn (36-60% of the reference dose), being therefore a very important source of micronutrient supply.

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TL;DR: Despite total contents indicating moderate-to-high heavy metal pollution in this river, metals are mostly distributed in the residual fraction, hence showing a low risk of mobility.

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TL;DR: The absorbance coefficient at 340 nm was found to have the strongest correlation to dissolved organic carbon concentration, greater than all fluorescence intensity parameters measured, and therefore has implications for understanding its fate in estuaries and the ocean.

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TL;DR: Seasonal variations of the quality of the water of the Odiel River is analyzed, a region containing an abundance of massive sulphide deposits and the most abundant metals in the water are zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and copper (Cu).

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TL;DR: The results show that it would be very difficult to meet the EU limit values for PM10 established for 2010, and the main PM10 sources were mineral dust, emissions derived from power generation, vehicle exhausts, and marine aerosol.

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TL;DR: Urban gardeners should test the lead levels in their soils and develop strategies to ensure safety, as a pattern of lead transference from soil through the root to the stem and leaves of garden crops was found.

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TL;DR: The concentrations of VOCs in the atmosphere in Hong Kong were mainly affected by direct emissions from vehicles, evaporation of fuels, photochemical reactions and few industrial emissions.

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TL;DR: It is indicated that TU approach appears to be a good model to estimate the combined effect of metals in plant systems, and mixture toxicity may be closely-related to the bioaccumulation pattern within plants.

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TL;DR: Samples were collected from two stormwater canals and a recreational urban waterway known as Bayou St. John in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and analyzed for a range of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and demonstrated the occurrence of PPCPs and EDCs.

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TL;DR: Current evidence indicates that the PGE, especially Pd, are transported to biological materials through deposition in roots by binding to sulphur-rich low molecular weight species in plants.

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TL;DR: Exposure-response functions for the impact of long-term PM10 levels on the prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases are derived from the results of cross-sectional questionnaire surveys, and indicate a 0.31% increase per microg/m3 in adults and 0.44% in children.

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TL;DR: Correlation studies between PAHs concentrations and meteorological parameters were revealed that temperature has greater effects than other meteorology parameters such as wind speed, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure on g-PAHs and p-PAhs.

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TL;DR: Thallium contamination in soils should be a critical parameter for proper land use and health related environmental planning and regulations in areas containing high contents of Tl in soils associated with the natural occurrence of TL-rich sulfides and coals, with or without mining activities.