Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: Antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature

B Bodus, K O'Malley, G Dieter, C Gunawardana… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Green stormwater infrastructure is a growing management approach to capturing, infiltrating,
and treating runoff at the source. However, there are several emerging contaminants for …

Antibiotic resistance in urban stormwater: a review of the dissemination of resistance elements, their impact, and management opportunities

K O'Malley, W McDonald, P McNamara - Environmental Science: Water …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The public health crisis of antibiotic resistance is a growing threat across the world that is
only expected to intensify in the coming years. The cycling of antibiotic resistance genes …

Various carbon-based MgAl2O4 adsorbents and their removal efficiency of CR dye and antibiotics in aqueous media: High selective adsorption capacity, performance …

S Wang, H Liu, M Li, M Han, H Gao, H Yang, L Fang… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Various carbon-based MgAl 2 O 4 (MAO) adsorbents were synthesized by a simple
ultrasound irradiation technology with the activated carbon (AC), carbon quantum dots …

A roadmap for building waterborne virus traps

A Armanious, R Mezzenga - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Outbreaks of waterborne viruses pose a massive threat to human health, claiming the lives
of hundreds of thousands of people every year. Adsorption-based filtration offers a …

[HTML][HTML] Stormwater biofilter response to high nitrogen loading under transient flow conditions: Ammonium and nitrate fates, and nitrous oxide emissions

M Feraud, SP Ahearn, EA Parker, S Avasarala… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) in urban runoff is often treated with green infrastructure including biofilters.
However, N fates across biofilters are insufficiently understood because prior studies …

Plants release, pathogens decease: Plants with documented antimicrobial activity are associated with Campylobacter and faecal indicator attenuation in stormwater …

P Galbraith, R Henry, DT McCarthy - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Stormwater biofilters demonstrate promising treatment of faecal microorganisms, however
performance can vary with design and operational conditions. This study investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Urban stormwater green infrastructure: Evaluating the public health service role of bioretention using microbial source tracking and bacterial community …

E Lancaster, R Winston, J Martin, J Lee - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioretention cells (BRCs) control stormwater flow on-site during precipitation, reducing
runoff and improving water quality through chemical, physical, and biological processes …

BioRTC model enables exploration of real time control strategies for stormwater biofilters

P Shen, A Deletic, K Bratieres, DT McCarthy - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofilters with real time control (RTC) have great potential to remove microbes from
stormwater to protect human health for uses such as swimming and harvesting. However …

Anthropogenic activity remains the main contributor to fecal pollution in managed tropical watersheds as unraveled by PhyloChip microarray-based microbial source …

S Zhao, MJ Rogers, Y Liu, GL Andersen, J He - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
The spread of disease by enteric pathogens associated with fecal contamination is a major
concern for the management of urban watersheds. So far, the relative contribution of natural …

Accelerated dissemination of antibiotic resistant genes via conjugative transfer driven by deficient denitrification in biochar-based biofiltration systems

L Wei, Y Han, J Zheng, X Xu, L Zhu - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Biofiltration systems harbored and disseminated antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), when
confronting antibiotic-contained wastewater. Biochar, a widely used environmental …