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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 248, Issue -, Pages 101-113Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.02.018
Keywords
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); Groundwater contamination; Landfill leachate
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) - Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Programme
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The extent of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater surrounding legacy landfills is currently poorly constrained. Seventeen PFAS were analysed in groundwater surrounding legacy landfills in a major Australian urban re-development precinct. Sampling locations (n = 13) included sites installed directly in waste material and down-gradient from landfills, some of which exhibited evidence of leachate contamination including elevated concentrations of ammonia-N (<= 106 mg/L), bicarbonate (<= 1,740 mg/L) and dissolved methane (<= 10.4 mg/L). Between one and fourteen PFAS were detected at all sites and PFOS, PFHxS, PFOA and PFBS were detected in all samples. The sum of detected PFAS (Sigma(14)PFAS) varied from 26 ng/L at an ambient background site to 5,200 ng/L near a potential industrial point-source. PFHxS had the highest median concentration (34 ng/L; range: 2.6-280 ng/L) followed by PFOS (26 ng/L; range: 1.3-4,800 ng/L), PFHxA (19 ng/L; range:
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