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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
Volume 149, Issue 1-4, Pages 385-393Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0214-9
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Organic pollutants; PAHs; Reclaimed tidelands; Soxhlet extraction
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The wide-scale reclamation of tidal flats distributed throughout the western and southern coastal areas in Korea has been completed, in an effort to expand the available arable land. The present studies were conducted in order to characterize the concentrations and compositional patterns of selected PAHs, in order to obtain more information regarding environmental risk assessments for sustainable and environment-friendly agriculture in reclaimed tidelands and tidelands in South Korea. The PAH contents were low to moderate, relative to other urbanized regions of the world. Sigma PAHs ranged from 69.8 to 1,175.2 ng g(-1) in dry weight, with a mean value of 394.4 ng g-1. Differences were observed in the Sigma PAHs concentrations between industrial complex areas and rural regions. The two dominant PAHs were identified as fluoranthene and pyrene. These compounds constituted 1.4 to 55.0% (mean, 33.4%) and 2.7 to 45.6% (mean, 22.0%) of the Sigma PAHs. Our correlation analysis revealed that the Sigma PAHs contents were associated significantly with the organic carbon content (R-2 = 0.86, P<0.01) and the cation exchange capacity (CEC; R-2 = 0.89, P<0.01) in the reclaimed tidelands and tidelands.
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