Chronic Hydrocarbon Discharges Into Aquatic Environments: Ii-Urban Runoff and Combined Sewer Overflows

Hoffman, Eva J.; Quinn, James G.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-031862-2.50016-2

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“…Road runoff is an important source of potentially toxic contaminants in fresh waters [71]. The most frequently detected contaminants in a nationwide survey of urban runoff in the Untied States included the metals copper, lead, zinc, chromium, cadmium, and nickel, and the PAHs phenanthrene, naphthalene, pyrene, and fluoranthene [lo].…”

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The effects of motorway runoff on freshwater ecosystems: 1. Field study

Maltby

Forrow

Boxall

et al. 1995

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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The effects of motorway runoff on the water quality, sediment quality, and biota of small streams were investigated over a 12‐month period. Downstream of motorway runoff discharges there was an increase in the sediment concentrations of total hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals and an increase in the water concentrations of heavy metals and selected anions. Hydrocarbon contamination of sediments was positively correlated with potential contaminant loading (i.e., length of road drained/stream size). The greatest effect was observed at Pigeon Bridge Brook, a small stream receiving drainage from a 1,500‐m stretch of the Ml motorway. The dominant PAHs in contaminated sediment at this site were phenanthrene, pyrene, and fluoranthene, whereas the dominant metals were zinc, cadmium, chromium, and lead. Differences between the station upstream and downstream of discharges in the diversity and composition of the macroinvertebrate assemblages were detected in four out of the seven streams surveyed. However, there was no evidence of an effect on either the diversity or abundance of epilithic algae. The diversity of the aquatic hyphomycete assemblage was only affected at the most impacted site. Reductions in macroinvertebrate diversity were associated with reductions in the processing of leaf litter and a change from an assemblage based on benthic algae and coarse particulate organic matter to one dependent upon fine particulate organic matter.

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The effects of motorway runoff on freshwater ecosystems: 1. Field study

Maltby

Forrow

Boxall

et al. 1995

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

150

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“…The presence and composition of the hydrocarbons within runoff have been long recognized (Wade and Quinn, 1979;Eganhouse et al, 1982;Hoffman and Quinn, 1987). Lubricating and other heavy oils contained within urban runoff can be an important source of anthropogenic background hydrocarbons, which must be distinguished from any authentic petroleum contamination.…”

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Chemical fingerprinting of spilled or discharged petroleum — methods and factors affecting petroleum fingerprints in the environment

Stout¹,

Wang

2007

Oil Spill Environmental Forensics

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“…The measurement of the SS contents in urban runoff is of major concern with respect to the transport of anthropogenic pollutants, since pollutants are dominantly bound to particles [8][9][10]. On the ''Le Marais'' catchment, temporal variability was noticed for runoff and waste waters at the sewer outlet; nevertheless, the amplitude between d10 and d90 was less than one order of magnitude (Fig.…”

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