Nutrient transport during bioremediation of contaminated beaches: Evaluation with lithium as a conservative tracer

Water Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 515-524

  Wrenn, Brian A ^a,c   Suidan, Makram T ^a   Strohmeier, Kevin L ^a   Loye Eberhart, B ^a   Wilson, Gregory J ^a   Venosa, Albert D ^b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Environ Technol and Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaches; Bioremediation; Conservative tracer; Intertidal zone; Nutrient transport; Oil spill

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BEACHES; COASTAL ZONES; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; HYDROCARBONS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OIL SPILLS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDES; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

BIOREMEDIATION; HYDROCARBON DEGRADING BACTERIA; NUTRIENT TRANSPORT;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

FERTILIZER; HYDROCARBON; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031105478     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(96)00304-1     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. APHA (American Public Health Association) (1995) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 19th Edition. Washington, DC.
2. Atlas R. M. and Bartha R. (1992) Hydrocarbon biodegradation and oil spill bioremediation. In Advances in Microbial Ecology, Vol. 12 (Edited by Marshall K. C.), pp. 287-339. Plenum Press, NY.
3. Aulenbach D. B., Bull J. H. and Middlesworth B. C. (1978) Use of tracers to confirm ground-water flow. Groundwater 16, 149-156.
4. Bragg J. R., Prince R. C., Harner E. J. and Atlas R. M. (1993) Bioremediation effectiveness following the Exxon Valdez spill. Proc. 1993 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 435-447. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.
5. Brown A. C. and McLachlan A. (1990) Ecology of Sandy Shores. Elsevier, NY.
6. Freeze R. A. and Cherry J. A. (1979) Groundwater. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
7. Glover R. E. (1959) The pattern of fresh water flow in a coastal aquifer. J. Geophys. Res. 64, 439-475.
8. Gundlach, E. R. (1987) Oil-holding capacities and removal coefficients for different shoreline types to computer simulate spills in coastal waters. Proc. 1987 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 451-457. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.
9. Knudsen D., Peterson G. A. and Pratt P. F. (1982) Lithium, sodium, and potassium. In Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 2: Chemical and Microbiological Properties, Second Edition (Edited by Page A. L., Miller R. H. and Keeney D. R.), pp. 225-246. American Society for Agronomy, Inc. and Soil Science Society of America, Inc., Madison, WI.
10. Lee K., Tremblay G. H. and Levy E. M. (1993) Bioremediation: Application of slow-release fertilizers on low-energy shorelines. Proc. 1993 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 449-454. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.
11. Merlin F.-X., Chaumery C., Oudot J., Swannell R. P. J., Basseres A., Dalmazzone C., Ducreux J., Lee K. and Reilly T. (1995) Bioremediation: Results of the field trials of Landevennec (France). Proc. 1995 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 917-918. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.
12. Nielsen P. (1990) Tidal dynamics of the water table in beaches. Wat. Resour. Res. 26, 2127-2134.
13. Payne J. R. and Phillips C. R. (1985) Petroleum Spills in the Marine Environment: The Chemistry and Formation of Water-in-Oil Emulsions and Tar Balls. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI.
14. Pritchard P. H. and Costa C. F. (1991) EPA's Alaska oil spill bioremediation project. Environ. Sci. Technol. 25, 372-379.
15. Riedl R. J. and Machan R. (1972) Hydrodynamic patterns in lotic intertidal sands and their bioclimatological implications. Marine Biol. 13, 179-209.
16. Riedl R. J., Huang N. and Machan R. (1972) The subtidal pump: A mechanism of interstitial water exchange by wave action. Marine Biol. 13, 210-221.
17. Rosenberg E., Legmann R., Kushmaro A., Taube R., Adler E. and Ron E. Z. (1992) Petroleum bioremediation - a multiphase problem. Biodegradation 3, 337-350.
18. Safferman S. I. (1991) Selection of nutrients to enhance biodegradation for the remediation of oil spilled on beaches. Proc. 1991 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 571-576. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.
19. Smart P. L. and Laidlaw I. M. S. (1977) An evaluation of some fluorescent dyes for water tracing. Water Resour. Res. 13, 15-33.
20. USAGE (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) (1986) Engineering and Design - Laboratory Soils Testing, EM 1110-2-1906. Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Washington, DC.
21. Venosa A. D., Suidan M. T., Wrenn B. A., Strohmeier K. L., Haines J. R., Eberhart B. L., King D. and Holder E. L. (1996) Bioremediation of an experimental oil spill on the shoreline of Delaware Bay. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30, 1764-1775.
22. Wise W. R., Guven O., Molz F. J. and McCutcheon S. C. (1994) Nutrient retention time in a high permeability, oil-fouled beach. J. Environ. Engng 120, 1361-1379.
23. Wrenn B. A., Suidan M. T., Strohmeier K. L., Eberhart B. L., Wilson G. J. and Venosa A. D. (1995) Nutrient retention in the bioremediation zone of a sandy beach. Proc. 1995 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 896-897. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC.