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Assessment Of 17beta-Estradiol Removal From Wastewater Via Abiotic And Biotic Routes And Potential Effects On Food Chain Pathways, Lance Beecher

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Estrone, 17beta-estradiol (E2), and estriol are three of the most relevant natural hormones and are often found to contaminate the environment. When emanating from endogenous sources, these three compounds are not toxic or of concern; however, when estrogens are released into the environment from wastewater effluent they become a concern. The overall goal of the project was to evaluate abiotic and biotic techniques for removal of E2 and to quantify survival and reproduction impacts on an algal species and on an invertebrate species. We accomplished this goal by: 1) quantifying E2 sorption rates to crushed brick, an industrial mineral aggregate …