Effects of wastewater treatment plant discharge on ecosystem structure and function of lowland streams

B Gücker, M Brauns, MT Pusch - Journal of the North …, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
Secondary and tertiary wastewater treatment is common in developed countries, but little is
known about the responses of lotic ecosystems to contemporary wastewater treatment plant …

Modeling the response of water quality in the Seine river estuary to human activity in its watershed over the last 50 years

G Billen, J Garnier, A Ficht, C Cun - Estuaries, 2001 - Springer
The unique database of water quality measurements made in the Seine estuary over 45
years by the Service de la Navigation de la Seine at Rouen is used here to reconstruct the …

A long-term view of nutrient transfers through the Seine river continuum

G Billen, J Garnier, J Nemery, M Sebilo… - Science of the total …, 2007 - Elsevier
A model (the Riverstrahler model) is used to describe nutrient transfer and transformation at
the scale of the whole drainage network of the Seine based on information concerning the …

Fecal coliform removal in wastewater treatment plants studied by plate counts and enzymatic methods

I George, P Crop, P Servais - Water research, 2002 - Elsevier
Twelve wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were sampled in France and Belgium in 1999
and 2000 in order to estimate the fecal coliform (FC) removal efficiency of various types of …

Modelling the transfer and retention of nutrients in the drainage network of the Danube River

J Garnier, G Billen, E Hannon, S Fonbonne… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Danube catchment basin (817000km2, 76× 106 inhabitants) is the major freshwater
contributor to the Black Sea (6300m3s− 1, 80% of the annual river discharge into the north …

Fecal bacteria in the rivers of the Seine drainage network (France): sources, fate and modelling

P Servais, T Garcia-Armisen, I George… - Science of the Total …, 2007 - Elsevier
The Seine river watershed (France) is a deeply anthropogenically impacted area, due to the
high population density, intense industrial activities and intensive agriculture. The water …

Assessing nitrification and denitrification in the Seine River and estuary using chemical and isotopic techniques

M Sebilo, G Billen, B Mayer, D Billiou, M Grably… - Ecosystems, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Downstream from metropolitan Paris (France), a large amount of ammonium is
discharged into the Seine River by the effluents of the wastewater treatment plant at …

Estimation of wastewater biodegradable COD fractions by combining respirometric experiments in various So/Xo ratios

S Mathieu, P Etienne - Water Research, 2000 - Elsevier
In this work, a new respirometric method is proposed, in order to estimate readily
biodegradable COD, slowly biodegradable COD, and the active heterotrophic biomass …

Nitrification and nitrifying bacteria in the lower Seine River and estuary (France)

A Cébron, T Berthe, J Garnier - Applied and environmental …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Achères wastewater treatment plant, located just downstream of Paris, discharges its
effluents into the lower Seine River. The effluents contain large numbers of heterotrophic …

Particulate organic carbon in the estuarine turbidity maxima of the Gironde, Loire and Seine estuaries: origin and lability

H Etcheber, A Taillez, G Abril, J Garnier, P Servais… - Hydrobiologia, 2007 - Springer
A study of the particulate organic carbon (POC) in the estuarine turbidity maxima (ETMs) of
the three major French macrotidal estuaries shows that the average contents are 1.5, 3.3 …