Former DDT factory in Pakistan revisited for remediation: Severe DDT concentrations in soils and plants from within the area

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1966-1976

  Younas, Asma ^a   Hilber, Isabel ^b   ur Rehman, Shafique ^a   Khwaja, Mahmood ^c   Bucheli, Thomas D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c Sustainable Development Policy Institute Islamabad   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Exposure; Obsolete stocks; Organochlorine pesticide; Plant contamination; Remediation; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA PROCESSING; DDT; HERBIVORE; MONITORING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; PAKISTAN;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84875485130     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1317-y     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Ahad K, Mohammad A, Khan H, Ahmad I, Hayat Y (2010) Monitoring results for organochlorine pesticides in soil and water from selected obsolete pesticide stores in Pakistan. Environ Monit Assess 166: 191-199.
2. Artiola JF, Pepper IL, Brusseau M (2004) Environmental monitoring and characterization. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington.
3. Aslund MLW, Lunney AI, Rutter A, Zeeb BA (2010) Effects of amendments on the uptake and distribution of DDT in Cucurbita pepo ssp pepo plants. Environ Pollut 158: 508-513.
4. Azmi MA, Naqvi SNH, Azmi MA, Aslam M (2006) Effect of pesticide residues on health and different enzyme levels in the blood of farm workers from Gadap (rural area) Karachi-Pakistan. Chemosphere 64: 1739-1744.
5. Bartelt-Hunt SL, Smith JA, Burns SE, Rabideau AJ (2005) Evaluation of granular activated carbon, shale, and two organoclays for use as sorptive amendments in clay landfill liners. J Geotech Geoenviron 131: 848-856.
6. Bartelt-Hunt SL, Culver TB, Smith JA, Matott LS, Rabideau AJ (2006) Optimal design of a compacted soil liner containing sorptive amendments. J Environ Eng-Asce 132: 769-776.
7. Bouwman H, Kylin H, Sereda B, Bornman R (2012) High levels of DDT in breast milk: intake, risk, lactation duration, and involvement of gender. Environ Pollut 170: 63-70.
8. Buczyńska A, Szadkowska-Stańczyk I (2005) Identification of health hazards to rural population living near pesticide dump sites in Poland. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 18: 331-339.
9. Castelo-Grande T, Augusto PA, Monteiro P, Estevez AM, Barbosa D (2010) Remediation of soils contaminated with pesticides: a review. Int J Environ Anal Chem 90: 438-467.
10. Cliath MM, Spencer WF (1972) Dissipation of pesticides from soil by volatilization of degradation products. 1. Lindane and DDT. Environ Sci Technol 6: 910-914.
11. Colborn T, Dumanoski D, Myers JP (1997) Our stolen future: are we threatening our fertility, intelligence, and survival?-a scientific detective story. Penguin Books, USA Inc, New York.
12. Collins C, Fryer M, Grosso A (2006) Plant uptake of non-ionic organic chemicals. Environ Sci Technol 40: 45-52.
13. Cornelissen G, Gustafsson Ö, Bucheli TD, Jonker MTO, Koelmans AA, van Noort PCM (2005) Extensive sorption of organic compounds to black carbon, coal, and kerogen in sediments and soils: mechanisms and consequences for distribution, bioaccumulation, and biodegradation. Environ Sci Technol 39: 6881-6895.
14. Desaules A, Ammann S, Blum F, Brändli RC, Bucheli TD, Keller A (2008) PAH and PCB in soils of Switzerland-status and critical review. J Environ Monitor 10: 1265-1277.
15. Elfvendahl S, Mihale M, Kishimba MA, Kylin H (2004) Pesticide pollution remains severe after cleanup of stockpile of obsolete pesticides at Vikuge, Tanzania. Ambio 33: 504-509.
16. Eqani S, Malik RN, Alamdar A, Faheem H (2012) Status of organochlorine contaminants in the different environmental compartments of Pakistan: a review on occurrence and levels. Bull Environ Contam Tox 88: 303-310.
17. Faroon O, Harris M, Llados F, Swarts S, Sage V, Citra M, Gefell D (2002) Toxicological profile for DDT, DDE, and DDD. ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) 497 pages.
18. Ghosh U, Luthy RG, Cornelissen G, Werner D, Menzie CA (2011) In-situ sorbent amendments: a new direction in contaminated sediment management. Environ Sci Technol 45: 1163-1168.
19. Gonzalez M, Miglioranza KSB, de Moreno JEA, Moreno VJ (2003) Organochlorine pesticide residues in leek (Allium porrum) crops grown on untreated soils from an agricultural environment. J Agr Food Chem 51: 5024-5029.
20. Götz R, Sokollek V, Weber R (2012) The dioxin/POPs legacy of pesticide production in Hamburg: part 2-waste deposits and remediation of Georgswerder landfill. Environ Sci Pollut Res. doi: 10. 1007/s11356-012-0986-x, Online; pp. 1-12.
21. Gyalpo T, Fritsche L, Bouwman H, Bornman R, Scheringer M, Hungerbühler K (2012) Estimation of human body concentrations of DDT from indoor residual spraying for malaria control. Environ Pollut 169: 235-241.
22. Hilber I, Bucheli TD (2010) Activated carbon amendment to remediate contaminated sediments and soils: a review. Global Nest J 12: 305-307.
23. Hilber I, Maeder P, Schulin R, Wyss GS (2008) Survey of organochlorine pesticides in horticultural soils and there grown Cucurbitaceae. Chemosphere 73: 954-961.
24. Jan MR, Shah J, Khawaja MA, Gul K (2009) DDT residue in soil and water in and around abandoned DDT manufacturing factory. Environ Monit Assess 155: 31-38.
25. Khwaja MA (2008) POPs hot spot soil contamination due to a demolished dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (persistent organic pollutant) factory, Nowshera, NWFP, Pakistan. Ann Ny Acad Sci 1140: 113-120.
26. Khwaja MA, Jan MR, Gul K (2006) Physical verification and study of contamination of soil and water in and surrounding areas of abandoned persistent organic pollutant (DDT) factory in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan. Sustainable Development Policy Institute SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan p. 54.
27. Khwaja MA, Jan MR, Gul K (2007) Study of contamination of soil in surrounding of abandoned persistant organic pollutant (DDT) factory in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan. Sustainable Development Policy Institute SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan p. 39.
28. Kromidas S (2000) Validierung in der Analytik. Weinheim, Germany.
29. Kylin H (1996) Airborne lipophilic pollutants in pine needles. Environ Sci Pollut Res 3: 218-223.
30. Kylin H, Sjödin A (2003) Accumulation of airborne hexachlorocyclohexanes and DDT in pine needles. Environ Sci Technol 37: 2350-2355.
31. Lopez-Avila V, Schoen S, Milanes J, Beckert WF (1988) Single-laboratory evaluation of EPA method 8080 for determination of chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated-biphenyls in hazardous wastes. J Assoc Off Ana Chem 71: 375-387.
32. Lowry GV, Murphy PJ, Marquette A, Reible D (2006) Sorbent-amended "active" sediment caps for in-place management of PCB-contaminated sediments. In: Calabrese EJ, Kostecki PT, Dragun J (eds) Contaminated soils, sediments and water, vol 10. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, pp 379-391.
33. Lunney AI, Zeeb BA, Reimer KJ (2004) Uptake of weathered DDT in vascular plants: potential for phytoremediation. Environ Sci Technol 38: 6147-6154.
34. Lunney AI, Rutter A, Zeeb BA (2010) Effect of organic matter additions on uptake of weathered DDT by Cucurbita pepo ssp pepo cv. Howden. Int J Phytorem 12: 404-417.
35. Marco JAM, Kishimba MA (2005) Concentrations of pesticide residues in grasses and sedges due to point source contamination and the indications for public health risks, Vikuge, Tanzania. Chemosphere 61: 1293-1298.
36. Minh NH, Minh TB, Kajiwara N, Kunisue T, Subramanian A, Iwata H, Tana TS, Baburajendran R, Karuppiah S, Viet PH, Tuyen BC, Tanabe S (2006) Contamination by persistent organic pollutants in dumping sites of Asian developing countries: implication of emerging pollution sources. Arch Environ Con Tox 50: 474-481.
37. Mitra J, Raghu K (1998) Long term DDT pollution in tropical soils: effect of DDT and degradation products on soil microbial activities leading to soil fertility. B Environ Contam Tox 60: 585-591.
38. Mitton FM, Gonzalez M, Pena A, Miglioranza KSB (2012) Effects of amendments on soil availability and phytoremediation potential of aged p, p ′-DDT, p, p ′-DDE and p, p ′-DDD residues by willow plants (Salix sp.). J Hazard Mater 203: 62-68.
39. Murphy P, Marquette A, Reible D, Lowry GV (2006) Predicting the performance of activated carbon-, coke-, and soil-amended thin layer sediment caps. J Environ Eng-Asce 132: 787-794.
40. Noegrohati S, Narsito HS, Sanjayadi (2008) Fate and behavior of organochlorine pesticides in the Indonesian tropical climate: a study in the Segara Anakan estuarine ecosystem. Clean-Soil Air Water 36: 767-774.
41. Pakistan Government (2009) National implementation plan (NIP) for phasing out and elimination of POPs from Pakistan under Stockholm Convention article 7(a). p. 842. http://chm. pops. int/Implementation/NIPs/NIPSubmissions/tabid/253/Default. aspx.
42. Quinn L, Pieters R, Nieuwoudt C, Borgen AR, Kylin H, Bouwman H (2009) Distribution profiles of selected organic pollutants in soils and sediments of industrial, residential and agricultural areas of South Africa. J Environ Monitor 11: 1647-1657.
43. Shen L, Wania F (2005) Compilation, evaluation, and selection of physical-chemical property data for organochlorine pesticides. J Chem Eng Data 50: 742-768.
44. Somasundaram L, Coats JR (1991) Pesticide transformation products in the environment. ACS Symposium Series 459: 2-9.
45. Stockholm Convention (2008) Stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants. At http://www. pops. int. Accessed November 2012.
46. Tariq MI, Afzal S, Hussain I, Sultana N (2007) Pesticides exposure in Pakistan: a review. Environ Int 33: 1107-1122.
47. Tutiempo Network SL (2012) http://www. tutiempo. net/en/Climate/Peshawar/08-2008/415300. htm. Accessed March 2012.
48. UNEP, AMAP (2011) Climate change and POPs: predicting the impacts. p. 66.
49. Vega FA, Covelo EE, Andrade ML (2007) Accidental organochlorine pesticide contamination of soil in Porrino, Spain. J Environ Qual 36: 272-279.
50. Vijgen J, Abhilash PC, Li YF, Lal R, Forter M, Torres J, Singh N, Yunus M, Tian CG, Schaffer A, Weber R (2011) Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) as new Stockholm Convention POPs-a global perspective on the management of Lindane and its waste isomers. Environ Sci Pollut Res 18: 152-162.
51. Voerman S, Besemer AFH (1975) Persistence of dieldrin, lindane, and DDT in a light sandy soil and their uptake by grass. Bull Environ Contam Tox 13: 501-505.
52. Wania F, Mackay D (1996) Tracking the distribution of persistent organic pollutants. Environ Sci Technol 30: A390-A396.
53. Weber R, Varbelow H (2012) Dioxin/POPs legacy of pesticide production in Hamburg: part 1-securing of the production area. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int (in press).
54. WHO (2007) The use of DDT in malaria vector control. Global malaria program.
55. Willett LB, O'Donnell AF, Durst HI, Kurz MM (1993) Mechanisms of movement of organochlorine pesticides from soils to cows via forages. J Dairy Sci 76: 1635-1644.
56. Ying GG, Kookana RS, Mallavarpu M (2005) Release behavior of triazine residues in stabilised contaminated soils. Environ Pollut 134: 71-77.
57. Zeeb BA, Amphlett JS, Rutter A, Reimer KJ (2006) Potential for phytoremediation of polychlorinated biphenyl-(PCB-)contaminated soil. Int J Phytoremediation 8: 199-221.
58. Zurek J, Samsonowicz A, Gosk E (1993) Chemical dump sites in Poland. Land Degrad Rehabil 4: 415-420.