Roadside dusts and soils contamination in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Tong, S. Y.

doi:10.1007/bf02394024

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“…Fifth, heavy metal concentrations in soil decline over time where use of leaded gasoline has been stopped and surface‐water flow carries the metal ions away ( Byrd et al 1983; Tong 1990). After they leave the terrestrial environment, however, the mobilized metals may cause additional harm to aquatic biota.…”

Section: Alteration Of the Chemical Environmentmentioning

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Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities

Trombulak

Frissell

2000

Conservation Biology

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Section: Alteration Of the Chemical Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities

Trombulak

Frissell

2000

Conservation Biology

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“…Lead-based house paint sales were phased out in 1978 in response to the Lead Paint Poison Prevention Act (Tong 1990). The major processes that now release Pb-based house paint into the soil are deterioration and especially disturbance of old Pb-based paint by power sanding (Mielke et al 2001).…”

Section: Sources Of Pbmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seasonality and Children’s Blood Lead Levels: Developing a Predictive Model Using Climatic Variables and Blood Lead Data from Indianapolis, Indiana, Syracuse, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Laidlaw

Mielke

Filippelli

et al. 2005

Environ Health Perspect

197

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On a community basis, urban soil contains a potentially large reservoir of accumulated lead. This study was undertaken to explore the temporal relationship between pediatric blood lead (BPb), weather, soil moisture, and dust in Indianapolis, Indiana; Syracuse, New York; and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Indianapolis, Syracuse, and New Orleans pediatric BPb data were obtained from databases of 15,969, 14,467, and 2,295 screenings, respectively, collected between December 1999 and November 2002, January 1994 and March 1998, and January 1998 and May 2003, respectively. These average monthly child BPb levels were regressed against several independent variables: average monthly soil moisture, particulate matter < 10 μm in diameter (PM10), wind speed, and temperature. Of temporal variation in urban children’s BPb, 87% in Indianapolis (R2 = 0.87, p = 0.0004), 61% in Syracuse (R2 = 0.61, p = 0.0012), and 59% in New Orleans (R2 = 0.59, p = 0.0000078) are explained by these variables. A conceptual model of urban Pb poisoning is suggested: When temperature is high and evapotranspiration maximized, soil moisture decreases and soil dust is deposited. Under these combined weather conditions, Pb-enriched PM10 dust disperses in the urban environment and causes elevated Pb dust loading. Thus, seasonal variation of children’s Pb exposure is probably caused by inhalation and ingestion of Pb brought about by the effect of weather on soils and the resulting fluctuation in Pb loading.

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“…Concentrations in dust collected directly from streets in the mid-1970s were as high as 52,000 ppm Pb (Harrison 1979), although roadside soil lead concentrations tend to be orders of magnitude less. Elevated lead concentrations in roadside soils vary depending on distance from the road, traffic intensity, and prevailing wind direction and have been reported in concentrations ranging from just a few ppm above background to more than 30 times background (Page and Ganje 1970; Page et al 1971; Smith 1976; Tong 1990). It has been shown that soil lead concentrations in large cities can be 10 to 100 times greater than that of smaller cities and towns due to traffic volumes (Mielke and Reagan 1998; Mielke 1999).…”

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Use of national-scale data to examine human-mediated additions of heavy metals to wetland soils of the US

Nahlik

Blocksom

Herlihy

et al. 2019

Environ Monit Assess

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Soil concentrations of 12 heavy metals that have been linked to various anthropogenic activities were measured in samples collected from the uppermost horizon in approximately 1000 wetlands across the conterminous US as part of the 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment (NWCA). The heavy metals were silver (Ag), cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), vanadium (V), tungsten (W), and zinc (Zn). Using thresholds to distinguish natural background concentrations from human-mediated additions, we evaluated wetland soil heavy metal concentrations in the conterminous US and four regions using a Heavy Metal Index (HMI) that reflects human-mediated heavy metal loads based on the number of elements above expected background concentration. We also examined the individual elements to detect concentrations of heavy metals above expected background that frequently occur in wetland soils. Our data show that wetland soils of the conterminous US typically have low heavy metal loads, and that most of the measured elements occur nationally in concentrations below thresholds that relate to anthropogenic activities. However, we found that soil lead is more common in wetland soils than other measured elements, occurring nationally in 11.3% of the wetland area in concentrations above expected natural background (> 35 ppm). Our data show positive relationships between soil lead concentration and four individual landscape metrics: road density, percent impervious surface, housing unit density, and population density in a 1-km radius buffer area surrounding a site. These relationships, while evident on a national level, are strongest in the eastern US, where the highest road densities and greatest population densities occur. Because lead can be strongly bound to wetland soils in particular, maintenance of the good condition of our nation’s wetlands is likely to minimize risk of lead mobilization. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10661-019-7315-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Roadside dusts and soils contamination in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities

Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities

Seasonality and Children’s Blood Lead Levels: Developing a Predictive Model Using Climatic Variables and Blood Lead Data from Indianapolis, Indiana, Syracuse, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Use of national-scale data to examine human-mediated additions of heavy metals to wetland soils of the US

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