Project Details
Projekt
Assessing Pollutant Turnover in Rivers by Target, Non-Target, and Toxicity Analysis (P01)
Subject Area
Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
Term
from 2017 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281741268
Under baseflow conditions, wastewater treatment plants and urban areas dominated the chemical profile and toxicity potential of the pollutant mixture in the Ammer River despite substantial agricultural activity in the catchment. Under storm and rain conditions, a much higher burden of pollutants and toxicity is carried in the river water compared to baseflow. The overall objective of project P1 is to elucidate major sources, the fate, and toxicity patterns of chemical mixtures during high discharge events. We (1) execute year-round field campaigns to sample agricultural and urban runoff components at pre-selected locations in the Ammer catchment during storm events of different intensities and duration, (2) consider particle-associated pollutants, both in suspended solids and bed sediments, and (3) investigate attenuation processes and mixture toxicity of organic contaminants and their transformation products in a controlled injection-extraction experiment along an aquifer trajectory.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of
SFB 1253:
Catchments as Reactors: Metabolism of Pollutants on the Landscape Scale (CAMPOS)
Applicant Institution
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
