@book{6418f9e41e4c4025b45cfeaa259794e7,
title = "Fate of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Irrigated Wastewater Effluent",
abstract = "The potential human and environmental health risks posed by pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been identified as a research priority at both the federal and state level. It has been well documented that municipal wastewater treatment plants with surface discharge fail to remove many of these emerging contaminants; however, little research has been conducted to determine the capability of lagoon treatment systems to remove PPCPs or of organic-matter-rich clay loam soils to filter PPCPs and reduce surface water pollution. The objective of this study was to determine the fate and transport of selected pharmaceuticals in lagoon-treated wastewater effluent applied as cropland irrigation in Illinois. In this study, we were able to determine the presence of six of the seven priority PPCPs in lagoon-treated wastewater effluent; verify the absence of studied PPCPs in soil and well water prior to treatment; determine characteristics of cropland soil that may impact PPCP transport when wastewater irrigation begins; and conduct sorption isotherm studies to understand the sorption and desorption capabilities of field soils in Lexington, Illinois.",
keywords = "Pharmaceuticals -- Environmental aspects -- Illinois, Personal care products -- Environmental aspects -- Illinois, Wastewater treatment, Agricultural irrigation -- Illinois",
author = "Lucy Loftus and Guang Jin and Shalamar Armstrong and Bierma, {Thomas J.} and Paul Walker and Wei Zheng and Walt Kelly",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
language = "English (US)",
series = "TR Series (Illinois Sustainable Technology Center)",
publisher = "Illinois Sustainable Technology Center",
number = "52",
}