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The environmental compartments foreseen at the moment (extension is possible) and depicted in different schemata are:
- Surface water: Data from rivers, lakes and reservoirs including concentrations in the liquid phase, suspended particulate matter and biota (for WISE compatibility).
- Groundwater: Concentrations measured in springs and wells.
- Wastewater (ww): Concentrations in municipal and industrial wastewater treated and untreated and in different kinds sewage sludge.
- Wastewater (ww): Concentrations in municipal and industrial wastewater treated and untreated and in different kinds of sewage sludge.
- Stromwater runoff (stw): Concentrations in stormwater runoff from urban surfaces sampled from storm sewers in the separate sewer system and combined sewer overflows (CSO) in the combined sewer system. Untreated wastewater sampled during storm events from combined sewers might be stored here or in the wastewater section. Untreated wastewater from dry weather periods should be stored in the wastewater section.
- atmospheric deposition (ad): Deposition from the atmosphere onto surfaces. Given either as deposition rates (mass per area and time) or as concentration in a collection container which was collecting deposition for a certain period. To calculate deposition rates from these concentrations, the exposed collection area, the exposition time and the total sample volume need to be known.
- soil: Substance content in soil samples (usually topsoil) given in mass of a substance per dry matter mass of soil.
