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Surface Water and Sediment Contamination Assessment

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 3911

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Feipeng Li

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School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Interests: water quality process and guarantee technology; sediment contamination assessment; utilization of sediment resources
Prof. Dr. Yihua Xiao

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School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China
Interests: the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients in water and sediment; water contamination assessment; ecological risk analysis of pollutants
Dr. Lingchen Mao

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School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Interests: speciation and fractionation of contaminants in soils and sediment; environmental monitoring and assessment
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The pollution of surface water and sediments is a hot issue in research on the ecological environment and public health. Scientific evaluation of the degree of pollution and the ecological risk and the health risk of pollutants is an important foundation for the improvement of water quality and risk control. Nutrients, potential toxic elements and organic contaminants have generally been the most concerned in surface water environment. There are numerous studies focused on the quality assessment and ecological and health risk assessments of these substances. However, there are still many issues left to be studied, including urban and rural non-point-source pollution and its ecological and health risks to receiving water bodies; the uncertainty of the ecological impact of these pollutants and their degradation products under different hydrodynamic factors; the coexistence of heavy metals and toxic organic pollutants in sediments; the impact of sediment disturbance caused by large water conservancy projects and other anthropogenic activities on water environment quality; the emergence of new pollutants in recent years has made it more urgent to study their environmental risks in surface water and sediments, etc.

In addition, the existence of emerging pollutants in water and sediments poses long-term risks to the ecological environment. More studies are required on the development of prediction models for the characteristics of emerging pollutants in surface water and sediments to improve the accuracy of risk assessment. Carbon sinks in contaminated surface water and sediments are also an important topic worth exploring and discussing in this direction.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current knowledge on assessment of contaminated surface water and sediment. We accept scientific contribution from different surface water bodies and sediment including lake, river, estuary, pond, rainfall runoff, and so on. Here are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:

  1. Biogeochemical cycles of key biogenic elements in water and sediment environment; 
  2. Nutrients pollution and evaluation in surface water and sediment; 
  3. The evaluation of ecological risk and health impact by toxic metals and organic pollutants;
  4. Non-point-source contamination and its environmental impact on receiving water;
  5. Influence of sediment disturbance caused by water conservancy project on water quality;
  6. The ecological risk of multi-pollutant in surface water and sediment;
  7. Regional and watershed criteria of sediments and their applications;
  8. Ecological effects of contaminated sediment under the influence of anthropogenic activities;
  9. Characteristics and risk assessment of emerging pollutants;
  10. Carbon sink in contaminated surface water and sediment under climate change.

Dr. Feipeng Li
Prof. Dr. Yihua Xiao
Dr. Lingchen Mao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sediment
  • surface water
  • pollution
  • heavy metal
  • POPs
  • nutrient
  • emerging pollutants
  • rainfall runoff
  • ecological risk
  • health risk
  • carbon cycle

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Long-Term Changes in the Pollution of Warta River Bottom Sediments with Heavy Metals, Poland—Case Study
by Michał Fiedler
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(10), 5869; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105869 - 18 May 2023
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Variability in the heavy metal concentrations in aquatic environments may be influenced by a number of factors that may occur naturally or due to anthropopressure. This article presents the risk of contaminating Warta River bottom sediments with heavy metals such as As, Cd, [...] Read more.
Variability in the heavy metal concentrations in aquatic environments may be influenced by a number of factors that may occur naturally or due to anthropopressure. This article presents the risk of contaminating Warta River bottom sediments with heavy metals such as As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn. Samples collected from 35 sites located along the river course were analysed over the period of 2010–2021. The calculated pollution indices are characterised by significant spatial variability that was additionally subject to changes in subsequent years. The analysis may have also been influenced by individual measurement results that, in extreme cases, may strongly deviate from the concentration values determined in the same site during the remaining years. The highest median concentrations of Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, and Pb were in samples collected from sites that are surrounded by areas of anthropogenic land use. Samples from adjacent sites to agricultural areas showed the highest median concentrations of Co, Mn, and Ni, and Zn for those adjacent to forest areas. The research results indicate that, when analysing the degree of the risk of contaminating river bottom sediments with heavy metals, it is necessary to take into account long-term variability in metal concentrations. Taking into consideration data from only one year may lead to inappropriate conclusions and hinder planning protective measures. Full article
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Co-Effects of Hydrological Conditions and Industrial Activities on the Distribution of Heavy Metal Pollution in Taipu River, China
by Qinglu Yao, Ling Chen, Lingchen Mao, Yu Ma, Fengyan Tian, Ruijie Wang, Xiang-Zhou Meng and Feipeng Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 10116; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610116 - 16 Aug 2022
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In Taipu River, after being transformed from a drainage channel to a drinking water supply river in 1995, heavy metals that have accumulated in sediments have become an environmental issue. Herein, we collected sediments of Taipu River in 2018, 2020, and 2021 and [...] Read more.
In Taipu River, after being transformed from a drainage channel to a drinking water supply river in 1995, heavy metals that have accumulated in sediments have become an environmental issue. Herein, we collected sediments of Taipu River in 2018, 2020, and 2021 and analyzed the distribution of Sb, As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr, and Zn to identify their sources. The results revealed that the mean concentrations of heavy metals were above the background values, except for Cr and As. During the non-flood season, the midstream of Taipu River becomes a heavy metal hotspot, with their concentrations 2–5 times higher than those in upstream sediment. There were significant correlations (r = 0.79–0.99) among drainage, precipitation and flow rate, which indicated that drainage caused by both the opening of Taipu Gate and precipitation control the flow rate and, then, possibly influenced the distribution of heavy metals. Moreover, three sources (industrial sources, particle deposition sources, and natural sources) were characterized as the determinants for the accumulation of heavy metal by the Positive Matrix Factorization model, with the contribution rates of 41.7%, 32.9%, and 25.4%, respectively. It is recommended that the influence of hydrological conditions and industrial activities should be a key consideration when developing regulations for the management of heavy metals in rivers. Full article
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