2014-10-101 g. jacks 1), z. slejkovec 2) & p. bhattacharya 1) 1) kth int. groundwater arsenic...
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G. Jacks 1), Z. Slejkovec 2) & P. Bhattacharya 1)1) KTH Int. Groundwater Arsenic Res. Group , Div. Land & Water Resources Eng.., KTH, SE-
100 44 Stockholm, Sweden2) Dept. Environ. Sci., Josef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Natural Arsenic in Streams, Lakes and Fish in a Metasediment Area, N. Sweden
GSA Annual Meeting 2013 - Session T44 Environ. As
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As in bedrock and till
As in till (SGU)As in till (SGU)As in till (SGU)
The Västerbotten county hostsa large number of sulphideorebodies but the imprint in thetill of arsenic is largely derivedfrom black sulphidic shales underlying 5000 sqkm
Arsenopyrite Pyrite
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The sulphides weather and most of the arsenic is retained in the podzolic B-horizons
45 mg/kg As
260 mg/kg As
170 mg/kg As
210 mg/kg As
O-horizon
B-horizon
C-horizon
Metasediment
pH 4,5
pH 5,1
pH 5,7
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Fe and As are remobilised in wetlands under anoxic conditions and reprecipitated in drains
Stream organic matter 4000 mg As/kg
Equisetum -> 26 mg As/kg
Carex <2 mg/kg
Fe-prec. 1 700-5 600 mg As/kg Water 70 g/L
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Arsenic in stream sediments
Sand
0
2
4
6
8
10
0-2
5
25
-50
50
-10
0
10
0-2
00
20
0-4
00
40
0-8
00
80
0-1
600
16
00-
320
0
32
00-
640
0
Number of samples
As mg/kg
Sand
Org.
Fe-prec.
Background level of arsenic is generally < 10 mg/kg
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As-retention in the streams
Most of the arsenic is retained in stream sediments with several hundred mg/kg in sandy sediments and up to 0.5 % in ferric precipitates.
However, the levels still left in water is about three times the national background and some lakes have up to 20 g/l
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Assessment of the bioavalability
An effort to assess the bioavailability is made by:
• Separating water in unfiltered, filtered (0.2 m) and dialysis by using 10 and 1 kDa membranes.
• Analysis of macroinvertebrates and fish for organic (MMA, DMA, arsenobetaine) and inorganic arsenic (As(III) & As(V).
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Example of speciation of As and Fe in Lake Nyängstjärnen
Sample As g/l Fe g/l
Unfiltered 8.2 2450
Filtered 0.2 mm 5.2 1340
Dialysis < 10 kDa 3.2 325
Dialysis < 1 kDa 2.1 49
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Arsenic in lakes• Fe-hydroxides in suspended or colloidal
sizes are likely to be adsorbed onto TOC and arsenic tied to the ferrihydrate
• Preliminary tests with dialysis indicate
that little As is in bioavailable form
COO- OH O
Fe + O –As-OH
COO- OH O
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As in macroinvertebratesSpecies As(III)
+As(V) mg/kg
DMA + MA mg/kg
Arseno- betaine mg/kg
Tot As
mg/kg
Mixed macroinv.
3.05 0.24 b.d. 12.9
Mixed macroinv.
1.22 0.49 0.005 5.3
Pond-skater 0.33 0,28 b.d. 1.23
Difficulties in extraction of the arsenic in macroinvertebrates are experienced resultingin differences between species and tot-As
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As species in fishSpecie As(III)+
As(V)
mg/kg
DMA+
MMA
mg/kg
Arseno-
betaine
mg/kg
Tot As
mg/kg
Pike 1 <0.05 0.49 0.71 1.84
Pike 2 b.d. 0.59 0.50 1.26
Trout 1 0.07 b.d. 0.14 0.68
Trout 2 0.07 b.d 0.52 0.58
b.d. = below detection limit
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Conclusions ¤ Fe and As are mobilised in wetlands under reducing conditions ¤ Reprecipitation of Fe and readsorption of As is swift in draining water coarses under low pH ~ 5-6 ¤ Stream sediments are highly enriched in As and stream biota show moderately elevated contents of organic arsenic – in fish mostly non-toxic arsenobetaine ¤ Most of the arsenic in lakes is attached to Fe-hydroxides varying in size from suspended to colloidal ¤ In spite of so far limited data it seems that the bioavail- ability of arsenic is low, mirrored in low contents in fish
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Acknowledgements
¤ This investigation was supported by J Gust. Richerts foundation, C.F Lundström foundation and Ångpanneföreningen
¤ We are also thankful for access to data on till geochemistry from Swed. Geol. Survey, kindly supplied by Dr Kaj Lax
THANKS for Attention!