Impacts of Metal Contamination in Calcareous Waters of Deûle River (France): Water Quality and Thermodynamic Studies on Metallic Mobility

Autor: Baghdad Ouddane, J. C. Fischer, Gabriel Billon, Philippe Recourt, A. Boughriet, Nicolas Proix, Beatriz Lourino-Cabana, Ludovic Lesven
Přispěvatelé: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Université des Sciences et Technologies (Lille 1) (USTL), Laboratoire d'Analyses des Sols (LAS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université d'Artois (UA)
Rok vydání: 2009
Předmět:
Pollution
binding
Environmental Engineering
suspended particle
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
media_common.quotation_subject
metals
iap
precipitation
010501 environmental sciences
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
carbonate
calcite precipitation
thermodynamic calculation
heavy-metals
Environmental Chemistry
Organic matter
fractionation
14. Life underwater
quality guidelines
Water pollution
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
media_common
Pollutant
chemistry.chemical_classification
humic substances
Chemistry
trace-elements
Ecological Modeling
Aquatic ecosystem
Environmental engineering
aqueous-solutions
coprecipitation
Particulates
6. Clean water
sediment
solubility product
13. Climate action
Environmental chemistry
riverine pollution
northern france
Water quality
distribution coefficient
Surface water
Zdroj: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, Springer Verlag, 2010, 206 (1-4), pp.187-201. ⟨10.1007/s11270-009-0095-8⟩
ISSN: 1573-2932
0049-6979
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0095-8
Popis: International audience; To evaluate adverse impacts of metal pollution originating from smelting activities on the aquatic ecosystem of DeA >> le river in northern France, water samples were collected from five selected stations along a contaminated region of this river (during two surveys: April-June 2005 and April-May 2007). All samples were analysed using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy and/or ICP-mass spectrometry. Both the concentrations of dissolved and particulate elements were determined, and analytical data were compared with national and international water/particle quality guidelines as well as with some values reported in the literature for polluted rivers. For all the metals studied (i.e. Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn), our investigations showed that the effects of the dissolved phase on this aquatic medium were weak, according to water quality status established by US Environmental Protection Agency, USEPA (1994, 1999). Conversely, the levels of metals in suspended particulate matter were found to be much higher than local background contents and natural reference levels in French catchments. These levels were further quantified as "serious" contamination, i.e. above the "red" range that was previously elaborated by most existing metal-contamination scales in French basins of similar geology. The affinity of these metals for the particulate phase in DeA >> le waters follows the order: Cd > Cr > Pb > Zn = Mn > Cu > Ni. The trace metals released from anthropogenic activities were found to be partly bound to the reactive particulate phase, calcite, which is sensitive to physico-chemical variations occurring in the river ecosystem. To appraise the risk of ecotoxicity by metals, predictions on the ability to release metallic pollutants from calcite into waters were made successfully by testing three equilibrium geochemical speciation models (JCHESS, VISUAL MINTEQ and WINHUMIC) in which soluble organic matter was taken into account. Calculations showed that metal-water-calcite systems in DeA >> le River are close to thermodynamic equilibrium with generation of solid solutions, Me alpha Ca(1-)alpha CO(3), by (co)precipitation and/or adsorption reactions. On the basis of results mentioned here, more measurements of river chemistry and assessments of predictive capabilities of chosen water-quality guidelines with time would be developed in aquatic and calcareous areas for controlled dredging operations or other treatment engineering works.
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