{"id":7412,"date":"2024-03-08T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iowawatercenter.org\/?post_type=portfolio&p=7412"},"modified":"2024-03-08T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:27:51","slug":"probing-groundwater-surface-water-interactions-as-a-driver-of-complex-mixture-evolution-in-an-effluent-impacted-stream-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.iowawatercenter.org\/portfolio\/probing-groundwater-surface-water-interactions-as-a-driver-of-complex-mixture-evolution-in-an-effluent-impacted-stream-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Probing Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions as a Driver of Complex Mixture Evolution in an Effluent-Impacted Stream in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"
Climate change and urbanization are increasing the influence of municipal wastewater effluent on
\nreceiving waters, making wastewater effluent-dominated streams common worldwide, including
\nin temperate regions. This phenomenon increases loading of contaminants of emerging concern
\n(CECs) including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, and industrial chemicals
\nfrom wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to drinking water supplies (i.e., de facto reuse) and
\necological systems. Treated effluent from WWTPs releases CEC mixtures that vary
\nspatiotemporally, which generate complex exposure conditions for biota and potential for
\ndeleterious interactive effects (e.g., drug-drug interactions). When individual CECs present in
\nmixtures are removed from the aqueous phase via sorption or degrade from the stream at different
\nrates (i.e., differential attenuation), exposure conditions for biota change. Attenuation rates of
\nCECs we measured in the field are much greater than those in batch degradation tests\u2014suggesting
\nother relevant stream processes. Currently, we do not fully understand the role of groundwater-
\nsurface water exchange on complex mixture evolution. There is a critical need to evaluate the role
\nof groundwater-surface water exchange as a driver of complex mixture evolution using next-
\ngeneration high-resolution non-target analytical approaches to quantify CEC spatiotemporal
\ndynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Climate change and urbanization are increasing the influence of municipal wastewater effluent on receiving waters, making wastewater effluent-dominated streams common worldwide, including in temperate regions. This phenomenon increases loading of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","portfolio_category":[10],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7412","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","hentry","portfolio_category-statewide"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n