[Front Matter PDF (1.9 MB) || Entire Report PDF (14.3 MB)]

Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and Scope

Acknowledgments

Description of Study Area

Methods of Study

Sampling Sites

Collection, Processing, and Analysis of Water and Bottom-Sediment Samples

Calculation of Loads

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Water Samples

Bottom-Sediment Samples

Occurrence of Organic Wastewater Compounds

Streamflow Conditions and Field-Measured Properties and Constituents

Organic Wastewater Compounds in Water Samples

Occurrence of Organic Wastewater Compounds by Sampling Period

Occurrence of Organic Wastewater Compounds by Sampling Site

Occurrence of Organic Wastewater Compounds by Compound Class

Occurrence of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds

Organic Wastewater Compounds in Bottom Sediment

Relations Between Concentrations of Organic Wastewater Compounds in Dissolved

and Whole-Water Fractions

Implications of Occurrence

Summary and Conclusions

References

Supplemental Information

Tables

[Tables 1-6 included in Front Matter PDF (1.9 MB)]

1. Selected characteristics of the Sioux Falls wastewater treatment plant

2. Sampling sites and streamflow-gaging stations

3. Intervening reach lengths between selected locations

4. Statistical summaries of data related to occurrence of whole-water 3-beta-coprostanol

in water samples collected from wastewater effluents and the Big Sioux River

5. Statistical summaries of analytical results for organic wastewater compounds in bottom-

sediment samples

6. Organic wastewater compounds detected in bottom-sediment samples

7. Field-measured properties and constituents and analytical constituents [PDF (684 KB)]

8. Statistical summaries of analytical results for detected compounds in laboratory method-

blank samples [PDF (484 KB)]

9. Statistical summaries of analytical results for laboratory reagent-spike samples [PDF (264 KB)]

10. Statistical summaries of analytical results for laboratory surrogate-spike samples [PDF (100 KB)]

11. Statistical summaries of analytical results for detected compounds in field equipment-

blank samples [PDF (75 KB)]

12. Statistical summaries for field replicate samples for organic wastewater compounds (OWCs)

detected in any sample for any primary/replicate sample pair [PDF (254 KB)]

13. Statistical summaries for environmental matrix-spike samples [PDF (412 KB)]

14. Results for field-measured properties and constituents in water samples [PDF (149 KB)]

15. Analytical results for human pharmaceutical compounds (HPCs) in water samples [PDF (484 KB)]

16. Analytical results for human and veterinary antibiotic compounds (HVACs) in

water samples [PDF (861 KB)]

17. Analytical results for major agricultural herbicides (MAHs) in water and bottom-

sediment samples [PDF (212 KB)]

18. Analytical results for household, industrial, and minor agricultural use compounds (HIACs)

in water and bottom-sediment samples [PDF (606 KB)]

19. Analytical results for polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water and bottom-

sediment samples [PDF (2.4 MB)]

20. Analytical results for sterol compounds (SCs) in water and bottom-sediment samples [PDF (286 KB)]

21. Statistical summaries of analytical results and load results for organic wastewater

compounds in water samples [PDF (825 KB)]

22. Organic wastewater compounds detected at concentrations greater than study reporting

levels in water samples [PDF (253 KB)]