Groundwater from Infiltration Galleries Used for Small Public Water Supply Systems: Contamination with Pesticides and Endocrine Disruptors

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Mansilha, Catarina (Author) FCNAUP; Melo, A. (Author) Other; Ferreira, Isabel (Author) FCNAUP; Pinho, Olívia (Author) FCNAUP; Domingues, V. (Author) Other; Pinho, C. (Author) Other; Gameiro, P. (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Vol. 87 No. 3

Pages: 312-318

ISSN: 0007-4861

Publisher: Springer Nature

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 10 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 15 Citations

Pubmed / Medline

Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Health sciences

CORDIS: Health sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-NDV

Abstract (EN): Infiltration galleries are among the oldest known means used for small public water fountains. Owing to its ancestral origin they are usually associated with high quality water. Thirty-one compounds, including pesticides and estrogens from different chemical families, were analysed in waters from infiltration galleries collected in Alto Douro Demarcated Wine region (North of Portugal). A total of twelve compounds were detected in the water samples. Nine of these compounds are described as presenting evidence or potential evidence of interfering with the hormone system of humans and wildlife. Although concentrations of the target analytes were relatively low, many of them below their limit of quantification, four compounds were above quantification limit and two of them even above the legal limit of 0.1 mu g/L: dimethoate (30.38 ng/L), folpet (64.35 ng/L), terbuthylazine-desethyl (22.28 to 292.36 ng/L) and terbuthylazine (22.49 to 369.33 ng/L).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: <a href="http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=000293852900021 ">Indexado na Web of Science</a>