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Occurrence of Endocrine-Disrupting and Other Wastewater Compounds during Water Treatment with Case Studies from Lincoln, Nebraska and Berlin, Germany
Citation:
Verstraeten, I. M., T. Heberer, J. R. Vogel, T F. Speth*, S. Zuehlke, AND U. Duennbier. Occurrence of Endocrine-Disrupting and Other Wastewater Compounds during Water Treatment with Case Studies from Lincoln, Nebraska and Berlin, Germany. Adams & Bhandari (ed.), Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, VA, 7(4):253-265, (2003).
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Except for herbicides, research on the fate and transport of endocrine disrupting compounds and other organic wastewater compounds released into the environment and their potential presence in drinking water is in its infancy. Analytical methods still are being developed, evaluated, and may be improved as time progresses. Nevertheless, recent studies indicate that high removal rates of less polar compounds probably can be obtained through wastewater-treatment processes, bank filtration, and additional drinking-water processes. However, during wastewater treatment and bank filtration, polar compounds, such as atrazine and some metabolites, potentially can be transported into drinking water at concentrations generally lower than those occurring in the environment. However, concentrations of non-polar estrogenic compounds might decrease during treatment processes because of their physico-chemical properties.
