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Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Residential and Hospital Effluent, Municipal Wastewater, and the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Title Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Residential and Hospital Effluent, Municipal Wastewater, and the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Creator Brown, Kathryn D.
Subject Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) Silvery minnow habitats Antibiotic-resistant organisms Albuquerque Drinking Water Program Albuquerque Southside Water Reclamation Plant (SWRP)
Description This report is the Professional Project report of Kathryn D. Brown, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Water Resources degree at the University of New Mexico. This project investigated: 1) the contribution of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) from residential and hospital effluent sources, 2) resultant concentrations of PhACs in the Albuquerque Southside Water Reclamation Plant (SWRP) raw influent and treated effluent, and 3) concentrations of PhACs in the Rio Grande, which receives SWRP effluent. PhACs present in surface waters have been shown to adversely impact organisms (Jobling et al., 1998) and, in the case of antibiotics, perhaps...
Date 2010-04-29T02:22:09Z 2010-04-29T02:22:09Z 2010-04-29T02:22:09Z
Type Other
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1928/10482
Language en_US
Relation Publication (University of New Mexico. Water Resources Program) ; no. WRP-9

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