Fate of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Irrigated Wastewater Effluent

Loftus, Lucy; Jin, Guang; Armstrong, Shalamar; Bierma, Thomas J.; Walker, Paul; Zheng, Wei; Kelly, Walt

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Title

Fate of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Irrigated Wastewater Effluent

Author(s)

• Loftus, Lucy
• Jin, Guang
• Armstrong, Shalamar
• Bierma, Thomas J.
• Walker, Paul
• Zheng, Wei
• Kelly, Walt

Issue Date

2015-01

Keyword(s)

• Pharmaceuticals -- Environmental aspects -- Illinois
• Personal care products -- Environmental aspects -- Illinois
• Wastewater treatment
• Agricultural irrigation -- Illinois

Geographic Coverage

Lexington, IL

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.

Publisher

Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Series/Report Name or Number

• TR Series (Illinois Sustainable Technology Center) ; 052
• Pollutants -- PPCPs in the Environment

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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• http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73116
• https://youtu.be/eaNlVSRj0iQ

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Grant Number HWR12223

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