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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 158, Issue 3, Pages 649-657Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.10.030
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Arsenic; Heavy metals; Mobility; Redox potential
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A derelict canal contains an estimated 9800 tonnes of anoxic sediment with highly elevated concentrations of trace elements. Lack of maintenance, reduced water levels and vegetation colonization threaten the stability of pollutants by removing existing waterlogged reduced conditions A column leaching study of the sediment tinder increasingly oxidized conditions showed reductions in As mobility but increased heavy metal concentrations. In a reduced state, As mobility was higher (as a consequence of enhanced Fe and organic carbon solubility) whilst heavy metal concentrations in leachates were lower (due to markedly higher pH) Over 10 contiguous wetting and drying cycles, the consequences were profound; all trace elements were continuously leached with enhanced flushing of Fe. As. Zn and Cu This raises concern over possible mobilization of pollutants to the wider environment, including ground-water Options for management to stabilize contaminants are discussed that point to the importance of limiting water flow through the sediment (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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