Zenne River and 2 WWTPs in Brussels Metagenome. aquatic metagenome

Our study site, the Zenne River in Brussels (Belgium) is an example of surface water highly disturbed by urban wastewater. This small river, with an annual average discharge of 4 m3 s-1 upstream Brussels (verifier), crosses the city and receives the wastewater released by the two WWTPs of Brussels (one million inhabitants). Seven stations along the river and the treated effluents of the two Brussels’s WWTPs were sampled during four sampling campaigns performed at different seasons in 2010. The BCC was analyzed using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing and in parallel, a large set of environmental parameters and processes were measured.