Passive samplers to quantify micropollutants in sewer overflows: accumulation behaviour and field validation for short pollution events

Contaminants in sewer overflows can contribute to exceedances of environmental quality standards, thus the quantification of contaminants during rainfall events is of relevance. However, monitoring is challenged by i) high spatiotemporal variability of contaminants in events of hard-to-predict durat...

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Published in:Water research (Oxford) 2019-09, Vol.160, p.350-360
Main Authors: Mutzner, Lena, Vermeirssen, Etiënne L.M., Mangold, Simon, Maurer, Max, Scheidegger, Andreas, Singer, Heinz, Booij, Kees, Ort, Christoph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemcatcher
Monitoring
Pesticide
Pharmaceutical
Polar organic pollutant
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Summary:Contaminants in sewer overflows can contribute to exceedances of environmental quality standards, thus the quantification of contaminants during rainfall events is of relevance. However, monitoring is challenged by i) high spatiotemporal variability of contaminants in events of hard-to-predict durations, and ii) a large number of remote sites, which would imply enormous efforts with traditional sampling equipment. Therefore, we evaluate the applicability of passive samplers (Empore styrene-divinylbenzene reverse phase sulfonated (SDB-RPS)) to monitor a set of 13 polar organic contaminants. We present calibration experiments at high temporal resolution to assess the rate limiting accumulation mechanisms for short events (
ISSN:0043-1354
1879-2448
DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2019.04.012