Nonpoint sources of volatile organic compounds in urban areas—relative importance of land surfaces and air

Lopes, Thomas J.; Bender, David A.

doi:10.1016/s0269-7491(98)00048-7

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“…Additionally, the connectivity of surface and subsurface flowpaths increases the rate and magnitude of transference into receiving waters (Pringle 2001, Tetzlaff et al 2007, Jackson and Pringle 2010. A vast suite of contaminants stem from urban areas, including increased nutrient loadings (Garnier et al 2012, Carey et al 2013, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (Lopes andBender 1998, Mahbub et al 2011), heavy metals (Sorme andLagerkvist 2002, Pastor andHernández 2012) and thermal pollution (Wang et al 2008), where water temperature has become an important proxy for in-stream aquatic integrity (Chang and Psaris 2013). In developing countries, contaminants are often pumped directly into water courses from industry, agriculture and untreated domestic wastewater, where limited access to widespread sanitation and poor regulatory policies have contributed to significant degradation of aquatic bodies.…”

Section: Chemical/water-quality Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

McGrane

2016

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes. The expansion of global urban areas has resulted in marked alterations to natural processes, environmental quality and natural resource consumption. The urban landscape influences infiltration and evapotranspiration, complicating our capacity to quantify their dynamics across a heterogeneous landscape at contrasting scales. Impervious surfaces exacerbate runoff processes, whereas runoff from pervious areas remains uncertain owing to variable infiltration dynamics. Increasingly, the link between the natural hydrological cycle and engineered water cycle has been made, realising the contributions from leaky infrastructure to recharge and runoff rates. Urban landscapes are host to a suite of contaminants that impact on water quality, where novel contaminants continue to pose new challenges to monitoring and treatment regimes. This review seeks to assess the major advances and remaining challenges that remain within the growing field of urban hydrology. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Chemical/water-quality Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

McGrane

2016

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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“…In addition to the VOC occurrence and concentration patterns observed by streamflow pentile, seasonal variability is expected for VOCs on the basis of prior studies (Lopes and Bender, 1998;Reiser and O'Brien, 1998;Lundgren and Lopes, 1999). This section describes the overall patterns of occurrence for VOCs in urban streams stratified by warmer (April through September) and cooler (October through March) months.…”

Section: Occurrence Patterns Of Volatile Organic Compounds By Seasonmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…Some VOCs also may be formed in chlorinated drinking water by the reaction of free chlorine with organic matter . Some VOCs reported in urban streams have the potential to originate from the atmosphere (Pankow and others, 1997;Lopes and Bender, 1998;Lopes and others, 2000;Bender and others, 2000;Scott J. Kenner, U.S. Geological Survey, oral commun., 2006) and runoff from parking lots (Lopes and others, 2000). Many organic compounds may be scavenged from the atmosphere by precipitation (Kawamura and Kaplan, 1983;Ligocki and others, 1985;Knap and others, 1988;Dewulf and Langenove, 1999;Lopes and others, 2000).…”

Section: Potential Sources Of Volatile Organic Compounds In Urban Strmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occurrence of volatile organic compounds in selected urban streams in the United States, 1995-2003

Bender¹,

Delzer²,

Price³

et al. 2009

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“…Toluene has been reported in 23 percent of the stormwater samples collected nationwide (Lopes and Bender, 1998), and was detected in 20 percent of the Charlotte stormwater samples. However, if site 41 is excluded, toluene was detected in only 8 percent of the Charlotte samples.…”

Section: Organic Compoundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relation of Land Use to Streamflow and Water Quality at Selected Sites in the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1993-98

Bales¹,

Weaver²,

Robinson³

1999

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Nonpoint sources of volatile organic compounds in urban areas—relative importance of land surfaces and air

Cited by 88 publications

References 20 publications

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

Occurrence of volatile organic compounds in selected urban streams in the United States, 1995-2003

Relation of Land Use to Streamflow and Water Quality at Selected Sites in the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1993-98

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