Effect of Heavy Metals on Bacterial Attachment in Soils
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 138, Issue 11
Abstract
The presence of both heavy metals and bacteria is frequently reported in urban storm water runoff. Adsorption and complexation of metals onto bacteria and soil takes place as storm water runoff infiltrates into the subsurface, potentially changing both bacterial and mineral surfaces, and altering the attachment of bacteria onto soil surfaces. Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analyses were performed on soil samples equilibrated with synthetic storm water amended with copper, lead, and zinc to determine changes in the elemental content of soil. Sets of batch sorption experiments of Escherichia coli onto soil were conducted under different conditions by varying solution composition and soil exposure history. E. coli attachment increases in synthetic storm water with elevated heavy metals concentrations () as opposed to nutrient buffer () for the same untreated soil. For E. coli both suspended in nutrient buffer, is higher when equilibrated with metals-treated soil () in comparison with untreated soil (). Results indicate that the presence of heavy metals in solution increases bacterial attachment to soil surfaces.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 138 • Issue 11 • November 2012
Pages: 1106 - 1113
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Received: Aug 25, 2011
Accepted: Mar 23, 2012
Published online: Mar 26, 2012
Published in print: Nov 1, 2012
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