Evaluation of heavy metals pollution loadings in the sediments of the Ave river basin (Portugal)

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 603-618

  Alves, Cristina M ^a   Boaventura, Rui R A R ^a   Soares, Helena M V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

BCR sequential extraction; Chromium speciation; Heavy metals; Metal contamination factors; Multivariate analysis; River pollution; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BCR SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHROMIUM SPECIATION; COMMUNITY BUREAU OF REFERENCES; DATA MATRICES; HEAVY METALS POLLUTION; METAL CONTAMINATION; METAL CONTAMINATION FACTORS; METAL POLLUTION; METAL SPECIATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PORTUGAL; RESIDUAL FRACTION; RIVER BASINS; RIVER WATER; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS; WATER COLUMNS; WATER SAMPLES;

CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHROMIUM; CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL ANALYSIS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PH; POLLUTION; POSITIVE IONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 70449416053     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320380903113568     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Alomary, A.A., and Belhadj, S. 2007. Determination of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, Zn) by ICP-OES and their speciation in Algerian Mediterranean Sea sediments after a five-stage sequential extraction procedure. Environ. Monit. Assess. 135, 1-3, 265-280.
2. Araújo, M.F., Valério, P., and Jouanneau, J.M. 1998. Heavy metal assessment in sediments of the Ave river basin (Portugal) by energy-dispersive-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. X-Ray Spectrome- try 27, 305-312.
3. Davidson, C.M. 2001. Personal communication.
4. Davidson, C.M., and Delevoye, G. 2001. Effect of ultrasonic agitation on the release of copper, iron, manganese and zinc from soil and sediment using the BCR three-stage sequential extraction. Anal. Chimi. Acta 3, 398-403.
5. Davies, J.C. and Sampson, R.J. 1973. Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology. Wiley, New York.
6. Du Laing, G., Vandecasteele, B., De Grauwe, P., Moors, W., Lesage, E., Meers, E., Tack, F.M.G., and Verloo, M.G. 2007. Factors affecting metal concentrations in the upper sediment layer of intertidal reed beds along the river Scheldt. J. Environ. Monit. 9, 449-455.
7. Filgueiras, A.V., Lavilla, I., and Bendicho, C. 2002. Chemical sequential extraction for metal partitioning in environmental solid samples. J. Environ. Monit. 4, 823-857.
8. Filgueiras, A.V., Lavilla, I., and Bendicho, C., 2004. Evaluation of distribution, mobility and binding behaviour of heavy metals in surficial sediments of Louro River (Galicia, Spain) using chemometric analysis: a case study. Sci. Total Environ. 330, 1-3, 115-129.
9. Forstner, U., and Wittmann, G.T.W. 1979. Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment. Springer, Berlin.
10. Gonçalves, E.P.R., Boaventura, R.A.R., and Mouvet, C. 1992. Sediments and aquatic mosses as pollution indicators for heavy metals in the Ave river basin (Portugal). Sci. Total Environ. 114, 7-24.
11. Gouws, K., and Coetzee, P.P. 1997. Determination and partitioning of heavy metals in sediments of the Vaal Dam System by sequential extraction. Water S. A. 23, 217-226.
12. Groot, A.J., Zschuppe, K.H., and Salomons, W. 1982. Standardization of methods of analysis for heavy metals in sediments. Hydrobiologia 92, 689-695.
13. Jones, B., and Turki, A. 1997. Distribution and speciation of heavy metals in superficial sediments from the Tees estuary, north-east England. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 34, 768-779.
14. Kersten, M., and Forstner, U. 1995. Speciation of Trace Elements in Sediments and Combustion Waste. (In Ure, A.M. and Davidson, C.M. (eds.), Chemical Speciation in the Environment. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 234-275.
15. Leckie, J.O., and James, R.O. 1974. Control mechanisms for trace metals in natural waters. In Rubin, A.J. (ed.), Aqueous-Environmental Chemistry of Metals, Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 7-60. http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/annarborsciencepublishers.html
16. Lucas, M.F., Caldeira, M.F., Hall, A., Duarte, C., and Lima, C. 1986. Distribution of mercury in sediments and fishes of the lagoon of Aveiro, Portugal. Wat. Sci. Tech. 18, 141-148.
17. Mossop, K.F., and Davidson, C.M. 2003. Comparison of original and modified BCR sequential extraction procedures for the fractionation of copper, iron, lead, manganese and zinc in soils and sediments. Anal. Chimi. Acta 478, 111-118.
18. Pourbaix, M. 1974. Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria in Aqueous Solutions. National Association of Corrosion Engineers, Houston, TX.
19. Quevauviller, P. 1998. Operationally defined extraction procedures for soil and sediment analysis I. Standardization. Trends Anal. Chem. 17, 289-298.
20. Quevauviller, P., Rauret, G., López-Sanchez, J.F., Rubio, R., Ure, A., and Muntau, H. 1997. The Certification of the EDTA-extractable (Mass Fractions) of Cd, Cr, Ni, Pb and Zn in Sediment Following a Three-step Sequential Extraction Procedure-CMR 601. Report EUR 17554EN, CEC, Brussels, pp. 1-53.
21. Rauret, G., Rubio, R., Lopez-Sanchez, J.F., and Casassas, E. 1989. Specific procedure for metal solid speciation in heavily river sediments. Int. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 35, 89-100.
22. Rubio, R., Lopez-Sanchez, J.F., and Rauret, G. 1991. La especiacion solida de trazas de metales en sedimentos. Aplicación a sedimentos muy contaminados. Anales de Quimica 87, 599-605.
23. Salomons, M. 1980. Biochemical processes affecting metal concentrations in lake sediments (Ijs-selmeer, The Netherlands). Sci. Total Environ. 16, 217-229.
24. Sahuquillo, A., Rigol, A., and Rauret, G. 2003. Overview of the use of leaching/extraction tests for risk assessment of trace metals in contaminated soils and sediments. Trends Anal. Chem. 22, 152-159.
25. Soares, H.M.V.M., Boaventura, R.A.R., Machado, A.A.S.C., and Esteves da Silva, J.C.G. 1999. Sed-iments as monitors of heavy metal contamination in the Ave river basin (Portugal): multivariate analysis of data. Environ. Pollut. 105, 311-323.
26. Tack, F.M.G., and Verloo, M.G. 1995. Chemical speciation and fractionation in soil and sediment heavy metal analysis: a review. Int. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 59, 225-238.
27. Yu, K.C., Tsai, L.J., Chen, S.H., and Ho, S.T. 2001. Correlation analysis on binding behavior of heavy metals with sediment matrices. Wat. Res. 35(10), 2417-2428.
28. Yu, K.C., Tsai, L.J., Chang, C.Y., and Ho, S.T., 2000. Multivariate analyses on heavy metal binding fractions of river sediments in Southern Taiwan. Wat. Sci. Tech. 42, 7-8, 193-199.
29. Wang, Y.W., Yuan, C.G., Jin, X.L., and Jiang, G.B., 2005. Application of chemometrics methods for the estimation of heavy metals contamination in river sediments. J. Environ. Sciences-China 17(4),540-544.
30. Williams, S.L., Aulenbach, D.B., and Clesceri, N.L. 1974. Sources and distribution of trace metals in aquatic environments. In Rubin, A.J. (ed.), Aqueous-Environmental Chemistry of Metals, Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 77-127. k