Local and landscape influences on PAH contamination in urban stormwater

McIntyre, Nancy E.; Anderson, Todd A.; Carr, Deborah L.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.05.009

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“…Few studies have investigated PAH concentrations in invertebrates from systems similar to the ones of the present study. Nevertheless, the levels of PAH in the biota of the studied water bodies were generally some orders of magnitude higher than Heintzman et al [51] found for adult odonates from an urban area in the USA, substantially higher than Yoon et al [52] found for fish and invertebrates in a tidal zone of the Arabian Gulf affected by urban activities and an order of magnitude higher than Viñas et al [53] found for wild mussels in an estuary of Spain. However, the PAH levels were quite similar to what was found for benthic invertebrates in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard [54], and also to what Thuy et al [55] reported as common for various bivalves in the ocean.…”

Section: Invertebratescontrasting

confidence: 56%

Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments and Invertebrates of Natural and Artificial Stormwater Retention Ponds

Stephansen

Arias

Brix

et al. 2020

Water

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Sediments and invertebrates were sampled from 9 stormwater retention ponds (SWRPs) and 11 natural, shallow lakes in Denmark. Samples were analyzed for 13 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The SWRPs received urban and highway runoff from various types of drainage areas and the lakes were located in areas of various land uses. Comparing PAHs in the sediments of the SWRPs and the lakes, it was found that levels of total PAH were similar in the two aquatic systems, with median values of 0.94 and 0.63 mg·(kg·DM)−1 in sediments of SWRPs and lakes, respectively. However, the SWRP sediments tended to have higher concentrations of high-molecular-weight PAHs than the lakes. A similar pattern was seen for PAHs accumulated in invertebrates where the median of total PAH was 2.8 and 2.1 mg·(kg·DM)−1 for SWRPs and lakes, respectively. Principal component analysis on the PAH distribution in the sediments and invertebrates showed that ponds receiving highway runoff clustered with lakes in forests and farmland. The same was the case for some of the ponds receiving runoff from residential areas. Overall, results showed that sediment PAH levels in all SWRPs receiving runoff from highways were similar to the levels found in some of the investigated natural, shallow lakes, as were the sediment PAH levels from some of the residential SWRPs. Furthermore, there was no systematic trend that one type of water body exceeded environmental quality standards (EQS) values more often than others. Together this indicates that at least some SWRPs can sustain an invertebrate ecosystem without the organisms experiencing higher bioaccumulation of PAHs then what is the case in shallow lakes of the same region.

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Section: Invertebratescontrasting

confidence: 56%

Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments and Invertebrates of Natural and Artificial Stormwater Retention Ponds

Stephansen

Arias

Brix

et al. 2020

Water

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“…Various pollutants from urban ponds have been shown to be present in organisms or even to bioaccumulate. This was, for example, the case with heavy metals in aquatic plants (Bonanno 2011), Gammaridae (Lieb and Carline 2000), fish (Campbell 1994), and amphibians (Priyadarshani et al 2015), with pesticides in amphibian (Smalling et al 2013) and damselfly (Van Praet et al 2014), and with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in adult damselflies (Heintzman et al 2015).…”

Section: Water Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Review: Toward management of urban ponds for freshwater biodiversity

2019

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Many cities around the world are expanding and this trend in urbanization is expected to sharply increase over coming decades. At the same time, the integration of green and blue spaces is widely promoted in urban development, potentially offering numerous benefits for biodiversity. This is particularly relevant for urban waterbodies, a type of ecosystem present in most cities. However, site managers often lack the knowledge base to promote biodiversity in these waterbodies, which are generally created to provide other ecosystem services. To address this, our review presents guidelines for promoting biodiversity in urban ponds. We found a total of 516 publications indexed in ISI Web of Sciences related to this topic, of which 279 were retained for the purposes of our review. The biodiversity of urban ponds, measured by species richness, appears to be generally lower than in rural ponds; however, urban ponds often support threatened species. Furthermore, if well managed, urban ponds have the potential to support a much greater biodiversity than they currently do. Indeed, this review shows that a range of urban factors can impair or promote pond biodiversity, including many that can easily be controlled by site managers. Local factors include design (surface area, pond depth, banks and margins, shade, shoreline irregularity), water quality (conductivity, nutrients, heavy metals), and hydroperiod and biotic characteristics (stands of vegetation, fish, invasive species). Important regional factors include several indicators of urbanization (roads, buildings, density of population, impervious surfaces, car traffic), and the presence of other wetlands or green spaces in the surrounding landscape. We considered each of these factors and their potential impact on freshwater biodiversity. Taking into account the management measures listed in the publications reviewed, we have proposed a framework for the management of urban ponds, with guidelines to promote biodiversity and other ecosystem services, and to avoid ecosystem disservices or the creation of ecological traps. At the city scale, the biodiversity of a pondscape benefits from a high diversity of pond types, differing in their environmental characteristics and management.

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“…Azah et al (2015) concluded that for most PAHs that were investigated, the largest total PAH fraction was most often found in smaller particles less than 150 µm, suggesting that atmospheric deposition from vehicle emissions is a major contributor of PAHs in these residuals rather than abraded asphalt particles from roadways that would be expected to be coarser (larger) particles. In the Texas study, Heintzman et al (2015) determined that PAH detections in water were not correlated to detection in the damselflies, but water detections for some PAHs were correlated to the ADD, which would suggest that atmospheric deposition is a dominant transport mechanism. Jiang, Luo et al (2015) measured hydrophobic pesticides sorbed onto particles in 99.4% of dust samples collected from residential outdoor impervious areas in Riverside, California.…”

Section: Stormwater Quantitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gilbreath and McKee (2015) investigated all these classes of compounds in a small urban watershed draining to San Francisco Bay in California, determining that more than 91% of the load for all of these compound classes were transported during storm, rather than dryweather, events. Two studies specifically investigated the occurrence of PAHs in roadway and stormwater system residuals in Florida (Azah et al, 2015) and in water and damselfly samples from urban stormwater wetlands in Texas (Heintzman et al, 2015). Azah et al (2015) concluded that for most PAHs that were investigated, the largest total PAH fraction was most often found in smaller particles less than 150 µm, suggesting that atmospheric deposition from vehicle emissions is a major contributor of PAHs in these residuals rather than abraded asphalt particles from roadways that would be expected to be coarser (larger) particles.…”

Section: Stormwater Quantitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control, and Treatment

Vogel

Moore²

2016

Water Environment Research

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The following review presents a synthesis of 181 journal articles published during 2015 that represent progress toward better characterizing, controlling, and treating urban stormwater runoff. The review is structured by general topical areas related to (1) stormwater quality and quantity characterization; (2) engineered stormwater control and treatment practices, including erosion and sediment control, stormwater ponds, constructed stormwater wetlands, bioretention, permeable pavement, greenroofs, and rainwater harvesting systems; and (3) watershed-scale modeling and optimization of stormwater control and treatment practices. Common research themes emerging from this collection of studies include potential to enhance hydrologic and pollutant treatment performance of stormwater practices via media amendments and the use of innovative outlet control structures, as well as development of a more mechanistic understanding of hydrologic and water-quality functions to inform modeling and performance predictions. These studies serve to expand the field's knowledge base and will inform future efforts to further improve stormwater control and treatment at various spatial and temporal scales.

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Local and landscape influences on PAH contamination in urban stormwater

Cited by 22 publications

References 49 publications

Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments and Invertebrates of Natural and Artificial Stormwater Retention Ponds

Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments and Invertebrates of Natural and Artificial Stormwater Retention Ponds

Review: Toward management of urban ponds for freshwater biodiversity

Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control, and Treatment

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