10.5285/61640BA9-FFDD-4EDA-9E83-DAFC01BA8CC7
Farkas, K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228
k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk
Marshall, M.R.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2869-0616
Bangor University
Cooper, D.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-7918
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
McDonald, J.E.
Bangor University
Malham, S.K.
Bangor University
Jones, D.L.
Bangor University
Enteric virus concentrations, pH and turbidity in wastewater discharged to the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017)
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
2018
Conwy Valley
River Conwy
VIRAQUA
Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH)
Enteric virus monitoring
Wastewater contamination
Wastewater quality
Diurnal changes
Kata Farkas
Bangor University
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
https://ror.org/04xw4m193
2018-03-23
2018-03-02
2019-01-03
en
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/61640ba9-ffdd-4eda-9e83-dafc01ba8cc7
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/61640ba9-ffdd-4eda-9e83-dafc01ba8cc7.zip
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.038
10.1007/s11356-018-3261-y
text/csv Comma-separated values (CSV)
This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
This dataset contains pH, turbidity and viral concentration information in untreated and treated wastewater samples at wastewater discharge points and wastewater treatment plants along the Conwy River. The aim of the data collection was to investigate diurnal changes in enteric virus concentrations in wastewater and to investigate any correlation with wastewater pH and turbidity.
Untreated wastewater samples were collected at one wastewater treatment plant for two events. Treated wastewater samples were collected at two wastewater discharge points for two and three sampling events, respectively. All the sampling took place between July 2016 and March 2017. During a sampling events, samples were collected every two hours for 72 hours using autosamplers. Samples were collected by trained members of staff from Bangor University and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH).
The data were collected as part of the VIRAQUA project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme (NE/M010996/1).
The pH, turbidity and conductivity of the water samples was measured directly, whereas viral nucleic acid concentrations of norovirus GI and GII, hepatitis A and E viruses, sapovirus GI and adenovirus were determined in concentrated samples using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). Viral concentrations are expressed in genome copies (gc) in one litre wastewater, where one gc refers to the genome of one virus particle. Data were collated into an Excel spreadsheet and exported into a .csv file for ingestion into the EIDC.
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53.08
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Natural Environment Research Council
https://ror.org/02b5d8509
NE/M010996/1
Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme