Zinc transport and partitioning of a mine-impacted watershed: An evaluation of water and sediment quality.

ABSTRACT: Watershed systems influenced by mining waste products can persist for many years after operations are ceased, leading to negative impacts on the health of the surrounding environment. While geochemical behaviors of these trace metals have been studied extensively at the benchtop-scale, much fewer studies have looked at controls on their distributions at the watershed-level. In this study, trace metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, and Zn) were reported from water and stream bed sediments at eight sites between the years 2014-2018 along a watershed undergoing active remediation efforts. Zn was determined to be the only trace metal analyzed with concentrations above EPA and Kansas Department of Health guidelines for both water and sediment in the watershed, and thus was the primary focus for determin

SUBMITTER: O'Connor KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295894 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature