Manganese concentrations in Scottish groundwater

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2467-2473

  Homoncik, Sally C ^a   MacDonald, Alan M ^b   Heal, Kate V ^a   Ó Dochartaigh, Brighid É ^b   Ngwenya, Bryne T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Iron; Manganese; Redox; Scotland; Water supplies

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER TYPE; DATA SETS; DEVONIANS; DRINKING WATER; FE OXIDE; GROUNDWATER SUPPLY; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY DATA; MANGANESE CONCENTRATION; MN CONCENTRATIONS; PH CONTROL; PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY; REDOX; REDOX STATUS; SCOTLAND; SEDIMENTARY AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; POTABLE WATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SORPTION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

GROUND WATER; IRON; MANGANESE;

AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DEVONIAN; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MANGANESE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SOLUBILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PH; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MANGANESE; SCOTLAND; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951764912     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Astron Private Water Supplies: Technical Manual 2006, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.
2. BGS. Manganese in stream sediments: Great Britain. G-BASE Geochemical Map. Keyworth, Nottingham, UK, 2009.
3. BGS. Baseline Scotland: groundwater chemistry data. British Geological Survey [accessed online on 1 February 2010]. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/baselineScotland/home.html.
4. Bouchard M., Laforest F., Vandelac L., Bellinger D., Mergler D. Hair manganese and hyperactive behaviours: pilot study of school age children exposed through tap water. Environ Health Perspect 2007, 115:122-127.
5. Bourg A.C.M., Bertin C. Seasonal and spatial trends in manganese solubility in an alluvial aquifer. Environ Sci Technol 1994, 28:868-876.
6. Casale RJ, LeChevallier MW, Pontius FW. Review of manganese control and related manganese issues. American Water Works Association (AWWA) Research Foundation and AWWA, Denver, 2002.
7. Collins J.F., Buol S.W. Effects of fluctuations in the Eh-pH environment on iron and/or manganese equilibria. Soil Sci 1970, 110:111-118.
8. Daughney CJ Iron and Manganese in New Zealand's groundwater. New Zealand Hydrological Society 2003, 42:11-26.
9. DeSimone LA. Quality of water from domestic wells in principal aquifers of the United States, 1991-2004: US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5227, 139 p., 2008.
10. Donnelley RR. Drinking Water Quality in Scotland 2007. Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland, 2008.
11. EC. Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption. Official Journal 1998; L330: 32-54.
12. Gounot A.-M. Microbial oxidation and reduction of manganese: consequences in groundwater and applications. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1994, 14:339-350.
13. Graham M.C., Gavin K.G., Farmer J.G., Kirika A., Britton A. Processes controlling the retention and release of manganese in the organic rich catchment of Loch Bradan. Appl Geochem 2002, 17:1061-1067.
14. Graham M.T., Ó Dochartaigh B.É., Ball D.F., MacDonald A.M. Using transmissivity, specific capacity and borehole yield data to assess the productivity of Scottish aquifers. Q J Eng Geol Hydrogeol 2009, 42:227-235.
15. Hem J.D. Chemical factors that influence the availability of iron and manganese in aqueous systems. Geol Soc Am Bull 1972, 83:443-450.
16. Hem JD. Study and Interpretation of the Chemical Characteristics of Natural Water (3rd Ed.). US Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2254, 1985.
17. Keen C.L., Zidenberg-Cherr S. Manganese toxicity in humans and experimental animals. Manganese in Health and Disease 1994, 193-205. CRC Press, London. D.J. Klimis-Tavantzis (Ed.).
18. Kondakis X.G., Makris N., Leotsinidis M., Prinou M., Papapetropoulos T. Possible health effects of high manganese concentrations in drinking water. Arch Environ Health 1989, 44:175-178.
19. Lind C.J., Hem J.D., Roberson C.E. Reaction products of manganese bearing waters. Chemical Quality of Water and the Hydrologic Cycle 1987, 271-302. Lewis Publishers, Michigan, USA. R.C. Averett, D.M. McKnight (Eds.).
20. Ljung K., Vahter M. Time to re-evaluate the guideline value for manganese in drinking water?. Environ Health Perspect 2007, 115:1533-1538.
21. MacDonald A., Ó Dochartaigh B.É. Baseline Scotland; an overview of available groundwater chemistry data for Scotland. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report, CR/05/239N 2005, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham.
22. MacDonald A., Robins N.S., Ball D.F., Ó Dochartaigh B.É. An overview of groundwater in Scotland. Scott J Geol 2005, 41:3-11.
23. Marshall K.C. Biogeochemistry of manganese minerals. Biogeochemical Cycling of Mineral-Forming Elements 1979, 253-286. Elsevier/North Holland Publishing Co. P.A. Trudinger, D.J. Swaine (Eds.).
24. Morgan J.J., Stumm W. The role of multivalent metal oxides in limnological transformations, as exemplified by iron and manganese. Advances in Water Pollution Research 1965, vol. 1:103-131. Pergamon Press. O. Jaag (Ed.).
25. Nealson K.H. Microbial cycle of manganese. Microbial Geochemistry 1983, 191-221. Blackwell, Oxford. W.E. Krumbein (Ed.).
26. Robins N.S. Groundwater quality in Scotland: major ion chemistry of the key groundwater bodies. Sci Total Environ 2002, 294:41-56.
27. Shand P., Edmunds W.M., Lawrence A.R., Smedley P.L., Burke S. The natural (baseline) quality of groundwater in England and Wales. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/07/06 2007, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham.
28. Sly L.J., Hodgkinson M.C., Arunpairojana V. Deposition of manganese in a drinking water distribution system. Appl Environ Microbiol 1990, 56:628-639.
29. Thamdrup B. Microbial manganese and iron reduction in aquatic sediments. Adv. Microb. Ecol. 2000, 16:41-84.
30. USEPA Health Effects Support Document for Manganese. EPA 822-R-03-003 2003, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
31. Wasserman G.A., Liu X., Parvez F., Ahsan H., Levy D., Factor-Litvak P., et al. Water manganese exposure and children's intellectual function in Araihazar, Bangladesh. Environ Health Perspect 2006, 114:124-129.
32. World Health Organization. Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (3rd Ed incorporating the 1st and 2nd Addenda), Volume 1 recommendations. World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2008, available online at [accessed 19 August 2009]. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/gdwq3rev/en/.