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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 300, Issue -, Pages 48-57Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.06.055
Keywords
Trichloroethene; Groundwater; Bioremediation; Metagenomics; Quantitative PCR
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- Flinders University, South Australia
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Bioremediation of trichloroethene (TCE) polluted groundwater is challenging, with limited next generation sequencing (NGS) derived information available on microbial community dynamics associated with dechlorination. Understanding these dynamics is important for designing and improving TCE bioremediation. In this study, biostimulation (BS), biostimulation-bioaugmentation (BS-BA) and monitored natural attenuation (MNA) approaches were applied to contaminated groundwater wells resulted in >= 95% dechlorination within 7 months. Vinyl chloride's final concentrations in stimulated wells were between 1.84 and 1.87 mu g L-1, below the US EPA limit of 2.0 mu g L-1, compared to MNA (4.3 mu g L-1). Assessment of the groundwater microbial community with qPCR showed up to similar to 50-fold increase in the classical dechlorinators' (Geobacter and Dehalococcoides sp.) population post-treatment. Metagenomic assays revealed shifts from Gammaproteobacteria (pre-treatment) to Epsilonproteobacteria and Deltaproteobacteria (post-treatment) only in stimulated wells. Although stimulated wells were functionally distinct from MNA wells post-treatment, substantial dechlorination in all the wells implied some measure of redundancy. This study, one of the few NGS-based field studies on TCE bioremediation, provides greater insights into dechlorinating microbial community dynamics which should be useful for future field-based studies. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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