Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river
Addition of nutrients, such as nitrogen, can degrade water quality in lakes, rivers, and estuaries. To predict the fate of nutrient inputs, an understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients is needed. We develop and employ a novel, parsimonious, process-based model of nitrogen concentratio...
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| author | Jason J. Venkiteswaran Sherry L. Schiff Brian P. Ingalls |
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| description | Addition of nutrients, such as nitrogen, can degrade water quality in lakes, rivers, and estuaries. To predict the fate of nutrient inputs, an understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients is needed. We develop and employ a novel, parsimonious, process-based model of nitrogen concentrations and stable isotopes that quantifies the competing processes of volatilization, biological assimilation, nitrification, and denitrification in nutrient-impacted rivers. Calibration of the model to nitrogen discharges from two wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River, Ontario, Canada, show that ammonia volatilization was negligible relative to biological assimilation, nitrification, and denitrification within 5 km of the discharge points. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d0324bcdeefb48b9aa1812e15c5197bd2022-12-21T23:33:25ZengCanadian Science PublishingFACETS2371-16712371-16712019-07-014131533510.1139/facets-2018-0028Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian riverJason J. Venkiteswaran0Sherry L. Schiff1Brian P. Ingalls2Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada.Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.Addition of nutrients, such as nitrogen, can degrade water quality in lakes, rivers, and estuaries. To predict the fate of nutrient inputs, an understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients is needed. We develop and employ a novel, parsimonious, process-based model of nitrogen concentrations and stable isotopes that quantifies the competing processes of volatilization, biological assimilation, nitrification, and denitrification in nutrient-impacted rivers. Calibration of the model to nitrogen discharges from two wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River, Ontario, Canada, show that ammonia volatilization was negligible relative to biological assimilation, nitrification, and denitrification within 5 km of the discharge points.https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2018-0028rivernitrogennitrateammoniawastewaterisotope |
| spellingShingle | Jason J. Venkiteswaran Sherry L. Schiff Brian P. Ingalls Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river FACETS river nitrogen nitrate ammonia wastewater isotope |
| title | Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river |
| title_full | Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river |
| title_fullStr | Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river |
| title_short | Quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a Canadian river |
| title_sort | quantifying the fate of wastewater nitrogen discharged to a canadian river |
| topic | river nitrogen nitrate ammonia wastewater isotope |
| url | https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2018-0028 |
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