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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2012 Jul 17;46(15):8305–8314. doi: 10.1021/es202447r

Table 1.

Total wastewater flow entering the WWTP and total loads of measured plus average estimated loss during storage for creatinine, caffeine, methamphetamine, benzoylecgonine (BZE), and cocaine, and normalized load (load substance/load creatinine) for each sampling day starting at 8 am.

Substance Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Total wastewater flow
 (L) 3.82×107 3.65×107 3.48×107 3.18×107

Creatinine
 (kg) 36 27 22 19

Caffeine
 (g) 1600 1600 1500 1400
 normalized 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08

Methamphetamine
 (g) 11 11 13 13
 normalized 3.1×10−4 4.1 × 10−4 5.9 × 10−4 6.8 × 10−4

BZE
 (g) 2.4 2.2 1.9 2.1
 normalized 6.7 ×10−5 8.1 ×10−5 8.6 ×10−5 1.1 ×10−4

Cocaine
 (g) 0.15 0.33 0.23 0.21
 normalized 4.2 ×10−6 1.2 ×10−5 1.0 ×10−5 1.1 ×10−5