Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beˇrkovice, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F17%3A00004491" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/17:00004491 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/17:74232 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10369558

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/3/218" target="_blank" >http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/3/218</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9030218" target="_blank" >10.3390/w9030218</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beˇrkovice, Czech Republic

Original language description

The application of innovative technologies in water management, such as wastewater reuse, requires a deeper understanding of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals. This study presents a unique pilot site at Horní Beˇrkovice in Central Bohemia, where wastewater parameters are significantly influenced by the effluent from a local psychiatric hospital, and where the treated wastewater infiltrates into a shallow aquifer over a long period. The survey compared the quality parameters of local wastewater with those of the wastewater in four other catchments with no sources of concentrated pharmaceutical contamination. A total of 10 pharmaceuticals were detected while monitoring a common sewage system, but their number increased 3-fold at Horní Beˇrkovice. The water quality data revealed the effectiveness of the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater at the local sewage treatment plant and tracked the fate of substances that move from the treatment plant into the recharge ponds and then gradually into groundwater. The findings showed a significant decrease in all the monitored micropollutants that remained bound in sediments and in the unsaturated zone. Their passage into groundwater was highly reduced, and they virtually disappear after a few hundred meters in the saturated zone. The only exception is carbamazepine. This substance passes through the treatment technology and unsaturated zone. It systematically appears in the groundwater samples collected about 1 km from the infiltration site.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10617 - Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/7F14341" target="_blank" >7F14341: Assessing water quality improvement options concerning nutrient and pharmaceutical contaminants in rural watersheds</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Water

ISSN

2073-4441

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

218

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000398721300068

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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