{"id":984,"date":"2018-08-14T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/environmentally-relevant-chemical-mixtures-of-concern-in-waters-of-united-states-tributaries-to-the-great-lakes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:19:16","slug":"environmentally-relevant-chemical-mixtures-of-concern-in-waters-of-united-states-tributaries-to-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/environmentally-relevant-chemical-mixtures-of-concern-in-waters-of-united-states-tributaries-to-the-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally Relevant Chemical Mixtures of Concern in Waters of United States Tributaries to the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Answer:<\/strong> The Great Lakes basin is a huge deal. It’s home to over 30 million people and a critical freshwater<\/a> resource<\/a>. But it gets a lot of chemical pollution from farms, factories, cities, and urban runoff. In fact, research on chemical mixtures in Great Lakes tributaries has found pharmaceuticals. That’s where advanced water treatment like reverse osmosis comes in. It’s a really effective way to deal with the water quality problems in this area. AMPAC USA builds commercial and industrial systems specifically for these needs, and we have certified, documented performance to back it up.<\/p>\n

Elliott, SM; Brigham, ME; Kiesling, RL; Schoenfuss, HL; Jorgenson, ZG<\/span><\/p>\n

INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT, 14 (4):509-518; <\/span>10.1002\/ieam.4041\u00a0<\/span>JUL 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/b>The North American Great Lakes are incredibly important. They give fish and wildlife a place to live, and they provide drinking water and waste processing for millions of people. But the rivers and streams feeding into them get chemicals from all sorts of places, so you’d expect complex mixes of chemicals. We don’t really know much about how specific chemicals show up together in these mixes, though. To get a better idea of what’s happening in the US Great Lakes Basin, scientists collected surface water from 24 US tributaries. They tested for many different organic chemicals, focusing on things like pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and fragrances. They looked at 181 samples and 21 chemical types to see what mixtures were present. Across the whole basin, 1664 different mixtures showed up in at least a quarter of the sites. The most complex mixtures had 9 chemical types and were found in 58% of the tributaries sampled. Pharmaceuticals usually appeared in these complex mixtures, which makes sense given how people use them and where wastewater comes out. Fewer mixtures were found near the lakes themselves compared to the river sites. As the mixtures got more complex, it became much more likely that a specific mixture would appear more often than by chance. This really highlights why we need to understand where these chemicals are coming from. This study, based on real-world data about mixture makeup and where they appear, can help guide future sampling or studies on how toxic these mixtures are. (C) 2018 SETAC<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/ieam.4041<\/p>\n

The post Environmentally Relevant Chemical Mixtures of Concern in Waters of United States Tributaries to the Great Lakes appeared first on Facts About Water.<\/p>\n

Source: Water Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To better understand the occurrence of specific chemical mixtures in the US Great Lakes Basin, surface water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-filter","category-water-treatment","tag-ro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/90624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}