@article {3729,
	title = {Efficiency of removal in stabilization ponds. I - Influence of climate},
	journal = {Water Science and Technology},
	volume = {31},
	year = {1995},
	pages = {219-229},
	abstract = {<p>Owing to the existing or predictable water deficiencies in the South of Portugal, it is necessary to carry out the appropriate management of water resources, by reducing and/or minimizing the negative impacts of untreated/treated domestic effluents in the aquatic environment. As Portugal has a great diversity of ecoclimatic areas, five different stabilization pond systems were chosen to carry out a control study during one year (from March 1991 to March 1992). According to Pina Manique \&amp; Albuquerque the ecological classification of these stations is different, varying from Ibero-mediterranean (continental) up to mediterranean (maritime). The physical and chemical parameters studied were: temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, BOD, COD, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia and total nitrogen, total suspended and volatile solids, total phosphorus and orthophosphates. The microbiological parameters studied were: total and faecal coliforms, faecal Streptococci, Clostridium perfringens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The correlations between climatic parameters and the efficiency of the removal of organic matter were analysed.</p>
},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027312239500509L},
	author = {Mendes, B. S. and Nascimento, M. J. and Pereira, M. I. and Bailey, G. and Lapa, N. and Morais, J and Santos Oliveira, J. F.}
}
