EU Wide Monitoring Survey on Waste Water Treatment Plant Effluents

• DOI: 10.2788/60704
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Authors: Robert Loos; R. Carvalho; Sara Comero; Diana C. António; Michela Ghiani; Teresa Lettieri; Locoro Giovanni; Bruno Paracchini; Simona Tavazzi; Bernd Manfred Gawlik; Luděk Bláha; Barbora Jarošová; Stefan Voorspoels; David Schwesig; Peter Haglund; Jerker Fick; Oliver Gans

The main objective of this research project (“Fate Sees”) was to verify on a European-wide scale the occurrence as many possible organic and inorganic chemical contaminants in WWTP effluents, order get European overview. In year 2010, effluents from 90 waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) were collected analysed total for 160 chemicals 20 trace elements. analyses complemented by applying also effect-based monitoring approaches aiming at estrogenicity dioxin-like toxicity vitro reporter gene bioassays, yeast diatom culture acute optical bioassays.