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Descriptor English: Point Source Pollution
Descriptor Spanish: Contaminación Puntual
Descriptor contaminación puntual
Entry term(s) contaminación de fuente puntual
contaminación de fuentes puntuales
contaminación por fuentes fijas
contaminación por fuentes puntuales
contaminante puntual
contaminantes puntuales
fuente de contaminación puntual
fuente estacionaria de contaminación
fuente fija
fuente fija de contaminación
fuente puntual
fuente puntual de contaminación
fuentes de contaminación puntuales
fuentes fijas
fuentes fijas de contaminación
fuentes puntuales
fuentes puntuales de contaminación
Scope note: Una contaminación puntual es aquella que procede de una fuente puntual única e identificable que produce contaminación térmica, acústica, lumínica, aérea o acuática. (Adaptado de: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminación_de_una_fuente_puntual)
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
Tree number(s): SP4.606.806.840
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)
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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Point Source Pollution - Preferred
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
Point Source of Pollution - Narrower
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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