Emerging contaminants in groundwater - NERC Open Research ...

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6 Veterinary medicines in depth 53
6.1 Potential veterinary medicine source terms 53
6.2 Predicting risk from veterinary medicines 54
7 Emerging contaminants detected in groundwater in England and Wales: BGS
analysis of Environment Agency monitoring data 55
7.1 Information about the data set 55
7.2 What the data tell us 55
7.3 Conclusions from Environment Agency monitoring data 66
8 Regulatory setting 67
8.1 Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) and Priority Substances Directive
(2008/105/EC) 67
8.2 Groundwater Daughter Directive (2006/118/EC) 67
8.3 Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 67
8.4 Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC), 69
9 Conclusions and recommendations 70
9.1 Conclusions 70
9.2 Recommendations for further research 71
References 72
Glossary of acronyms 84
Glossary of symbols 86
Appendix 1 Pesticide metabolite assessments 87
Appendix 2 Summary of compounds detected in Environment Agency groundwater
organic micropollutant database 92
Appendix 3 Spatial distribution of mean concentrations for most frequently detected
organic micropollutants from the Environment Agency database 97
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