H32E:
Water Quality and Water Contamination in Rivers II


Session ID#: 10566

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
Convener:  Gary Hemming, CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States
Chairs:  Jingyu Wang, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY, United States, Gary Hemming, CUNY City College of New York, New York, 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:

Urban Stormwater Quality: Linking Pesticide Variability To Our Sustainable Water Future (86756)
Megan Rippy, Virginia Tech, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manassas, VA, United States, Ana Deletic, Monash University, Civil Engineering, Melbourne, Australia and Wolfgang Gernjak, Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
Temporal trend and determinants of river water quality across urbanization gradients in a coastal city, China (63049)
Wenjun Zhao and Xiaodong Zhu, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Tracing the Carbon Cycle in a Small Boreal Catchment of a Groundwater Dominated River Using the Isotopic Composition of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (69117)
Paula Iris Adalmina Niinikoski, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and Juha Karhu, Univ Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Fecal Coliform Removal by River Networks (71226)
Tao Huang1, Wilfred M Wollheim2 and Robert James Stewart1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States
Effects of Reservoirs on Nutrient Concentrations and Ratios along the Longitudinal Gradient of Danube River Basin (80397)
Jessica Sara Salcedo Borda1, Gretchen M Gettel2 and Kenneth Irvine1, (1)UNESCO-IHE� Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, (2)UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands
Particulate Pyrite Autotrophic Denitrification (PPAD) for Remediation of Nitrate-contaminated Groundwater (70794)
Shuang Tong1,2, Laura C. Rodriguez-Gonzalez1, Michelle Henderson1, Chuanping Feng2 and Sarina J. Ergas3, (1)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (2)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China, (3)University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, United States
Estimation of Tile Drainage Contribution to Streamflow and Nutrient Export Loads (73315)
Antonio Arenas Amado1, Keith E Schilling2, Christopher S Jones3 and Larry J Weber3, (1)IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Iowa Geological Survey, Iowa City, United States, (3)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Systems Reliability Approach To Spatio-Temporal Probability Of Microbial Water Contamination (75691)
John Robert Myers and Lilit Yeghiazarian, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States

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