Journal
WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
Volume 200, Issue 1-4, Pages 253-265Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9909-3
Keywords
River water; Acidification; Acid deposition; Acid neutralizing capacity; Geology
Funding
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [16510020]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16510020] Funding Source: KAKEN
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pH monitoring data for public water bodies in Niigata and Gifu prefectures in central Japan were tested by the nonparametric seasonal Mann-Kendall method to evaluate long-term acidification. A significant long-term declining trend in river water pH was found in several watersheds in Niigata and Gifu prefectures. In Niigata, the declining trend was observed only in areas receiving drainage from granitic rocks, and the acid neutralizing capacity of the river waters was in fact low in those areas. In Gifu, a declining trend was observed in some remote watersheds, where there was no clear relationship between the geology and the long-term trends. Since Niigata and Gifu receive the highest level of acid loading from the atmosphere in Japan, river water acidification in several watersheds may be attributable to the effects of the acid deposition. Other factors, such as hot spring drainage, changes in land use, and natural sea salt deposition, cannot adequately explain the acidification phenomena observed in this study.
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