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ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH
卷 42, 期 5, 页码 1273-1290出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-019-00408-1
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Legacy pollution; Fluvial system; Sediment reworking; Eger river; Ohre floodplain; Mercury compounds
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- Institute of Geology CAS [RVO67985831] Funding Source: Medline
- Univerzite Jan Evangelista Purkyne v Ústí nad Labem [UJEP-SGS-2018-44-003-3] Funding Source: Medline
This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of the floodplain pollution sinks of the legacy mercury (Hg) hot spot in Kossein-Roslau river system (east Bavaria, Germany) for further mobilisation and fluvial transport of mercury in suspended particulate matter (SPM), as an important transport medium of Hg in aquatic systems. The channel belt fluvial erosion as the secondary pollution pathway was also considered. The hot spot has originated from the production of Hg compounds such as C2H5HgCN and C6H5HgCl in Chemical Factory Marktredwitz, and even more than 30 years after the factory abandonment, the Kossein and the Roslau rivers still export polluted fine grained SPM (median 25-35 mu m) with mean annual concentrations of 17.4 mg/kg. SPM sampling was performed by floating samplers, supported by floodplain drill cores and by recent channel sediments manually collected along the polluted rivers further. Based on long-term monitoring data set from state enterprise Povodi Ohre, fish in the Skalka Reservoir have had Hg concentrations in their muscles up to 6 mg/kg for at least the last 14 years, exceeding the European maximal limit of 0.5 mg/Hg/kg. In addition, the Hg inventory in the Kossein-Roslau river stretches was therefore calculated; it produced an estimate of ca. 21 t Hg in a 22-km-long channel belt, prone to fluvial remobilisation during floods. Although a major portion of the fluvially transported Hg has yet been trapped by the Skalka Reservoir, the Hg content in the SPM exported farther downstream still varies between 2 and 10 mg/kg Hg. Due to the considerable Hg inventory in the Kossein-Roslau rivers, an improvement will not occur downstream unless specific measures target the secondary pollution mechanism(s). Graphic abstract
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