Geochronology of anthropogenic pollutants in riparian wetland sediments of the Lippe River (Germany)

Historical Changes in Levels of Organic Pollutants in Sediment Cores from Brno Reservoir, Czech Republic

“…Decreasing concentration trends for PCBs from the 1970s were also observed in sediment cores from the Venice Lagoon, Italy (Frignani et al 2005). Similarly, slightly declining levels of organochlorines were found in recent sedimentary layers from the Teltow Canal, Germany, and in sedimentary archives from the Lippe and Rhine rivers (Heim et al 2004(Heim et al , 2005(Heim et al , 2006. Even POPs in sediment cores from remote areas show similar time trend, as demonstrated by Evenset et al (2007) who found maximum levels of PCBs and DDTs (71.8 and 4 μg kg −1 dw, respectively) as back as the mid1960s with an increase beginning in the 1930s.…”

Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater Treatment: Conventional Activated Sludge Treatment

“…Because of high consumption volumes and low degradability, they have been detected in treated wastewater, in surface waters, in fish, and in sediments [48,49].…”

Utility of soil linear alkylbenzenes to assess regional anthropogenic influences with special reference to atmospheric transport

“…To this end, additional evidence can be obtained from linear alkylbenzenes (LABs), which are uniquely associated with the production of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LASs) (Eganhouse et al, 1983), one of the most widely used anionic detergents and surfactants. Linear alkylbenzenes can be discharged into the environment as residues (1-3%) of commercial detergents (Hartmann et al, 2000;Eganhouse and Sherblom, 2001;Heim et al, 2004;Isobe et al, 2004), and in fact have been detected in various environmental matrices from different regions worldwide (Eganhouse et al, 1983;Takada and Ishiwatari, 1987;Takada et al, 1992;Isobe et al, 2004;Medeiros and Bícego, 2004;Martins et al, 2010Martins et al, , 2012Venkatesan et al, 2010;Rinawati et al, 2012). For example, previous studies presented evidence for direct discharge of untreated wastewater, which may have exerted strong impacts on aquatic systems of the PRD and the adjacent South China Sea (Luo et al, 2008;Ni et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012).…”