TY - JOUR
T1 - Perchlorate in fish from a contaminated site in east-central Texas
AU - Theodorakis, Christopher
AU - Rinchard, Jacques
AU - Anderson, Todd
AU - Liu, Fujun
AU - Park, June Woo
AU - Costa, Filipe
AU - McDaniel, Leslie
AU - Kendall, Ronald
AU - Waters, Aaron
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Brazos River Authority through the Fort Worth District US Army Corps of Engineers, and by US Department of Defense contract CU1141, through the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) under Cooperative Agreement IERA-99-001 with the US Air Force. The conclusions and interpretations in this study are strictly those of the authors and do not represent the opinions or endorsements, expressed or implied, of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Brazos River Authority, 311 HSW/AFIERA, or the US or Texas State Governments.
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - Perchlorate, a known thyroid endocrine disruptor, contaminates surface waters near military instillations where solid fuel rocket motors are manufactured or assembled. To assess potential perchlorate exposure to fish and the human population which may feed on them, fish were collected around the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in McLennan County, TX, and analyzed for the presence of the perchlorate anion. The sampling sites included Lake Waco and Belton Lake, and several streams and rivers within their watersheds. The general tendency was that perchlorate was only found in a few species sampled, and perchlorate was not detected in every individual within these species. When detected in the fish, perchlorate tissue concentrations were greater than that in the water. This may be due to highly variable perchlorate concentrations in the water coupled with individual-level variation in elimination from the body, or to routes of exposure other than water.
AB - Perchlorate, a known thyroid endocrine disruptor, contaminates surface waters near military instillations where solid fuel rocket motors are manufactured or assembled. To assess potential perchlorate exposure to fish and the human population which may feed on them, fish were collected around the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in McLennan County, TX, and analyzed for the presence of the perchlorate anion. The sampling sites included Lake Waco and Belton Lake, and several streams and rivers within their watersheds. The general tendency was that perchlorate was only found in a few species sampled, and perchlorate was not detected in every individual within these species. When detected in the fish, perchlorate tissue concentrations were greater than that in the water. This may be due to highly variable perchlorate concentrations in the water coupled with individual-level variation in elimination from the body, or to routes of exposure other than water.
KW - Body burden
KW - Fish
KW - Perchlorate
KW - Texas
KW - Thyroid
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=27744524863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.04.030
DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.04.030
M3 - Article
C2 - 15993996
AN - SCOPUS:27744524863
SN - 0269-7491
VL - 139
SP - 59
EP - 69
JO - Environmental Pollution
JF - Environmental Pollution
IS - 1
ER -