20200421_Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in stormwater canals and Bayou St. John in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA

 

1. Title, Journal and Authors

Title: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in stormwater canals and Bayou St. John in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA

Journal: Science of the Total

Authors: Glen R. Boyda,*, Jordan M. Palmerib, Shaoyuan Zhangc, Deborah A. Grimmd

aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tulane University

bDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University

cCenter for Bioenvironmental Research in Tulane and Xavier University

dCoordinated Instrument Facility, Tulane University

 

2. Summary

This research was conducted for analyzing the concentration of PPCP and EDC in two stormwater canals. Total nine PPCP were the target analytes, and sampling was carried in the two canals and nearby urban waterway.

 

Five PPCP were detected but others were not because of the limit of the method of analysis. It was confirmed the stronger the rainfall intensity, the higher the concentration. It seems the phenomenon that the canals had higher concentrations and the first-flush effect occurred in canals was occurred by the urban non-point sources pollution.

 

3. Contact

Dae Seong Jeong / Integrated Ph.D. program

 

Environmental Systems Engineering Lab.

School of Environmental Science & Engineering

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

1 Oryong-dong Buk-gu Gwangju, 500-712, Korea

 

Phone : +82-10-2003-7860

E-mail : jeongds92@gist.ac.kr