Environmental Risk Assessment of Sediments Deposited in Stormwater Treatment Facilities: Trace Metal Fractionation and Its Implication for Sediment Management
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Abstract
To gather further data about metal mobility in accumulated sediments in stormwater treatment facilities, metal mobility in sediments from sedimentation tanks, gully pot sediment traps, and sedimentation ponds was investigated using the sequential extraction procedure. This method allows distinguishing the metal speciation between ion-exchangeable, carbonate-associated, reducible, organic matter/sulfide-associated, and residual fractions. The metal fractionation reveals that, for all treatment facilities, the majority of Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn and a significant amount of Ni were in potentially mobile forms. Cd, Pb, and Zn are, to a large extent, associated with Fe-Mn oxides while Cu is commonly present as Cu–organic matter complexes. The metals in these potentially mobile fractions may represent a potential environmental hazard, e.g., due to release during maintenance (sediment removal) when the chemical phase distribution might change.
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Acknowledgments
This study has been supported by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Science and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) and the Norrbotten Research Council (Norrbottens Forskningsråd).
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Volume 142 • Issue 11 • November 2016
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Received: Mar 30, 2015
Accepted: Jan 26, 2016
Published online: Jun 3, 2016
Published in print: Nov 1, 2016
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