| Descriptor English: | Point Source Pollution | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Contaminación Puntual
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Poluição Pontual | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Pollution Ponctuelle | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Fixed Source Fixed Source of Pollution Point Source Point Source Pollutant Point Source Pollutants Point Source of Pollution Point Sources Point Sources of Pollution Pollution Point Sources Pollution from Point Sources Punctual Source Stationary Source of Pollution |
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| Tree number(s): |
SP4.606.806.840 |
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| Scope note: | A point source of pollution is a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution. (From: Water pollution. Encyclopedia of Earth, Topic. In Wikipedia. Available in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_source_pollution) |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||||
| Related: |
Environmental Pollutants
MeSH Feathers MeSH Industrial Pollutants DeCS Ringelman Chart DeCS Smoke MeSH | ||||||
| DeCS ID: | 25253 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | DDCS025253 | ||||||
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| Concept UI |
FD00058193 |
| Scope note | A point source of pollution is a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution. (From: Water pollution. Encyclopedia of Earth, Topic. In Wikipedia. Available in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_source_pollution) |
| Preferred term | Point Source Pollution |
| Entry term(s) |
Fixed Source Fixed Source of Pollution Point Source Pollutant Point Source Pollutants Pollution from Point Sources Stationary Source of Pollution |
| Concept UI |
FD00060754 |
| Scope note | Fixed point of emission of pollutants in bulk, typically of industrial origin. (Free translation from the original: Material IV - Glosario de Protección Civil, OPS, 1992) Any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture. (From: Section 502(14) of the Clean Water Act. In EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency. Available in: https://www.epa.gov/polluted-runoff-nonpoint-source-pollution/what-nonpoint-source) |
| Preferred term | Point Source of Pollution |
| Entry term(s) |
Point Source Point Sources Point Sources of Pollution Pollution Point Sources Punctual Source |
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