H31N:
Water Quality and Water Contamination in Rivers I


Session ID#: 10565

Session Description:
Anthropogenic activities as well as hydrological and biogeochemical processes impact water quality. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs), stormwater runoff and effluents from wastewater treatment plant are the primary sources of contamination in rivers and estuaries.  Nutrients (phosphorus, nitrogen, ammonia), heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, lead), pathogens (fecal coliform, E.Coli., enterococcus), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), dioxin, pesticides, as well as other organic/inorganic pollutants discharged into the river, degrade water quality, threatening fish consumption safety and public health. Any topic related to water contamination/water quality; environmental ecosystem restoration; fish consumption; land use impact; environmental health are welcome to this session.
Primary Convener:  Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Environmental Sciences, Bronx, United States
Conveners:  Gary Hemming, CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States and Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY, United States
Chairs:  Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY, United States, Gary Hemming, CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States and Tammo S Steenhuis, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY, United States
Index Terms:

1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of the aqueous photodegradation of substituted chlorobenzenes (61685)
Elodie Passeport1, Ning Zhang2, Langping Wu2, Hartmut Herrmann3, Barbara Sherwood Lollar4 and Hans Richnow2, (1)University of Toronto, Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Trend analysis of nutrient loadings in the South Saskatchewan River catchment (62892)
Kwok Pan (Sun) Chun, Hong Kong Baptist University, Geography, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Luis Alejandro Morales-Marin, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, Canada, Howard S. Wheater, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Variable Source Watershed Model for Reducing Dissolved Phosphorus Concentrations in Surface Waters (71495)
Tammo S Steenhuis1, Linh Hoang2, Elliot M Schneiderman3, Steve Pacenka4, Peter J Vermeulen5, Karen E Moore3 and Emmet M Owens3, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (2)City University of New York/ NYC Department of Environmental Protection, New York, NY, United States, (3)New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Kingston, NY, United States, (4)Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)University of Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands
Water quality and water contamination in the Harlem River (63903)
Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Environmental Sciences, Bronx, United States
Explanatory characteristics for nutrient concentrations and loads in the Sava River Catchment and cross-regionally (64398)
Lea Levi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden and Georgia Destouni, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden
Investigation of Hyporheic Microbial Biofilms as Indicators of Heavy Metal Toxicity in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana (75560)
Elliott Paul Barnhart, USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center, Helena, United States, Chiachi Hwang, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States, Nicholas Bouskill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology, Berkeley, CA, United States, Michelle Hornberger, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Matthew W. Fields, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States
Migratory Fish as Sensors of Anthropogenic Contamination in Streams (85223)
Eirik J Krogstad1, Timothy J Linley2, Megan K Nims2 and Jill M Janak2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Structural Evolution of Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron (nZVI) in Anoxic Co2+ Soultion : Interactional Performance and Mechanism (58778)
Chaomeng Dai, Tongji University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Shanghai, China and Yalei Zhang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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