Enrichment of stream water with fecal indicator organisms during baseflow periods
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- 作者：Yakov Pachepsky ; Matthew Stocker…
- 关键词：Microbial water quality ; Escherichia coli ; Enterococci ; Streambed sediment ; Release rate
- 刊名：Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：189
- 期：2
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Environmental Management; Ecotoxicology; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Ecology;
- 出版者：Springer International Publishing
- ISSN：1573-2959
- 卷排序：189
文摘
Fecal indicator organisms (FIOs) are generally believed to be present in surface waters due solely to direct deposition of feces or through transport in runoff. However, emerging evidence points toward hyporheic exchange between sediment pore water and the overlying water column during baseflow periods as a source of FIOs is surface waters. The objective of this work was to (a) propose a mass balance-based technique for estimating changes of FIO concentrations in the same volume of water (or “slug”) from the inlet to outlet of stream reaches in baseflow conditions and (b) to use such enumeration to estimate rate of the FIO release to stream water column. Concentrations of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and enterococci were measured in the slug while simultaneously monitoring the movement of a conservative tracer, Br that labeled the slug. Concentrations of E. coli in the slug were significantly larger (P = 0.035, P = 0.001, and P = 0.001, respectively) at the outlet reach in all three replications, while enterococci concentrations were significantly larger in two of three replications (P = 0.001, P < 0.001, and P = 0.602). When estimated without accounting for die-off in water column, FIO net release rates across replications ranged from 36 to 57 cells m−2 s−1 and 43 to 87 cells m−2 s−1 for E. coli and enterococci, respectively. These release rates were 5 to 20% higher when the die-off in water column was taken into account. No diurnal trends were observed in indicator concentrations. No FIO sources other than bottom sediment have been observed during the baseflow period. FIOs are released into stream water column through hyporheic exchange during baseflow periods.