Research on pharmaceuticals and personal care products explores interactions between chemicals and the environment, the impact of wastewater and drinking water treatment processes on PPCPs, exposure impacts on aquatic biota, landfill leachate concentrations of PPCPs, and much more. The research listed here provides a detailed picture of the PPCP research occurring in the New England and New York region. National studies of particular interest, or national studies that have taken data from a New England/New York site, are also listed. This list will be maintained and updated to help promote regional research coordination.
| Research Project Title | Author(s) | Agency/ Organization | Status | Research Topic(s) | Study Location | Article Location (if Published) |
Contact Information | Website (For More Information) |
| National Studies | ||||||||
| National Rivers and Streams Assessment | Treda Smith Ellen Tarquinio Susan Holdsworth |
EPA | Ongoing (report expected 2011) | Occurrence - Surface Water Occurrence - Biota |
National | n/a | Treda Smith Smith.treda@epa.gov Ellen Tarquinio Tarquinio.ellen@epa.gov Susan Holdsworth Holdsworth.Susan@epa.gov |
Project Website |
| Source-Water Quality Assessment Program - Man-Made Organic Compounds in Source Water of Nine Community Water Systems that Withdraw from Streams, 2002-05 | James A. Kingsbury Gregory C. Delzer Pixie A. Hamilton |
USGS | Published (2008) | Occurrence - Surface Water | National (incld. MA) | USGS Fact Sheet 2008-3094 | James Kingsbury jakingsb@usgs.gov Gregory Delzer gcdelzer@usgs.gov |
Project Website |
| A national reconnaissance for pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in the United States - II) Untreated drinking water sources | Michael J. Focazio Dana W. Kolpin Kimberlee K. Barnes Edward T. Furlong Michael T. Meyer Steven D. Zaugg Larry B. Barber Michael E. Thurman |
USGS | Published (2008) | Occurrence - Drinking Water | National (incld. MA, NY) | Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 402, Issues 2-3, 1 Sept. 2008, Pgs. 201-216 | Michael J. Focazio mfocazio@usgs.gov |
Abstract on LabMeeting |
| Pharmaceuticals and Other Organic Waste Water Contaminants Within a Leachate Plume Downgradient of a Municipal Landfill | Kimberlee K. Barnes Scott C. Christenson Dana W. Kolpin Michael J. Focazio Edward T. Furlong Steven D. Zaugg Michael T. Meyer Larry B. Barber |
USGS | Published | Occurrence - Groundwater Landfills |
OK | Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, Volume 24 Issue 2, Pages 119 - 126 | Kimberlee K. Barnes kkbarnes@usgs.gov |
Abstract in Ground Water Monitoring & Research |
| Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Through Municipal Wastewater Treatment Processes | Roger Stephenson Joan Oppenheimer |
WERF | Published (2007) | Occurrence - Wastewater Wastewater Treatment |
National | WERF Project Number: 03-CTS-22UR | PROJECT MANAGER: Christy Terhune, P.E. cbixler@werf.org PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Roger Stephenson roger.v.stephenson@mwhglobal.com |
Project Website |
| New England/New York Studies | ||||||||
| Wastewater Effluent, Combined Sewer Overflows, and Other Sources of Organic Compounds to Lake Champlain | P. Phillips A. Chalmers |
USGS | Published (2009) | Occurrence - Wastewater | VT | Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 45(1):45-57 | P. Phillips pjphili@usgs.gov |
Project Website |
| Sources of pharmaceutical pollution in the New York City Watershed | Patrick M. Palmer Lloyd R. Wilson Patrick O'Keefe Robert Sheridan Thomas King Chia-Yang Chen |
NYS DOH | Published (2008) | Occurrence - Surface Water Occurrence - Wastewater |
NY | Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 394, Issue 1, 1 May 2008, Pgs. 90-102 | Lloyd Wilson lrw03@health.state.ny.us |
Abstract on ScienceDirect |
| Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products in selected water supplies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 2004 | Marc J. Zimmerman | USGS | Published (2005) | Occurrence - Drinking Water Occurrence - Wastewater |
MA | U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1206, 16 p. | Marc Zimmerman mzimmerm@usgs.gov |
Open-File Report 2005-1206 |
| Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care Products, and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Drinking Waters | David Reckhow Kathleen Arcaro |
UMass Amherst MA DEP AECOM |
Ongoing | Occurrence - Wastewater Wastewater Treatment |
MA | n/a | David Reckhow reckhow@ecs.umass.edu |
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| Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Detect Low Levels of Pharmaceuticals in Three Maine Rivers | Howard Patterson John Peckenham |
Maine Water Institute - The University of Maine | Ongoing | Detection Methods Occurrence - Surface Water |
ME | n/a | Howard Patterson howardp@maine.edu John Peckenham jpeck@maine.edu |
Project Website |
| Concentrations of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Effluents of Twelve Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Vermont | EPA Region 1 VT DEC |
Published (2006) | Occurrence - Wastewater | VT | n/a | |||
| Preliminary Screening of Surface Waters and Waste Water Treatment Plant Effluents for the Presence of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products and Anthropogenic Compounds | Meridith Decelle Peter Philbrook Hilary Snook |
USEPA-OEME | n/a | Occurrence - Wastewater Occurrence - Surface Water |
ME, VT, CT | n/a | Peter Philbrook philbrook.peter@epa.gov Hilary Snook snook.hilary@epa.gov |
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