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Front Envir Sci Eng    0, Vol. Issue () : 568-578    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-013-0514-3
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Species distribution of arsenic in sediments after an unexpected emergent discharge of high-arsenic wastewater into a river
Ruiping LIU1, Wei XU1,2, Kun WU1,2, Wenxin GONG1,2, Huijuan LIU1(), Jiuhui QU1
1. Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; 2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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Abstract

The unexpected emergent discharge of high-arsenic wastewater into water environments results in significantly increased levels of arsenic in water; however, the species distribution of arsenic in sediments has never been reported before for such cases. This study focuses on an As pollution accident in the Dasha River, and uses sequential extraction procedures with deionized water, 1?mol·L-1 MgCl2 at pH= 8, 1?mol·L-1 NaH2PO4 at pH= 5, and 1?mol·L-1 HCl to investigate four binding phases of arsenic (i.e., water soluble, ion-exchangeable, strongly-bound, and precipitates) in sediments at different layers in different cross-sections along the river. The average ratio of arsenite (As(III)) to arsenate (As(V)) was found to decrease from 0.74:1 in river water to 0.48:1 in sediment, owing to its higher affinity toward As(V) than As(III). The content of arsenic in the sediments was relatively low and the maximum content was observed to be 36.3?mg·kg-1 for As(III) and 97.5?mg·kg-1 for As(V). As(III) and As(V) showed different binding phases in sediments, and the average fractions of these four species were determined to be 0.09, 0.11, 0.17, and 0.63 for As(III) and 0.03, 0.14, 0.63, and 0.20 for As(V), respectively. For all the sediment samples, the content of arsenic showed no relationship with the characteristics of the sediments such as the particle diameter, the content of organic carbon, Fe, and Mn, although a negative correlation with particle diameter was observed for the sediments in the uppermost 2-cm layer. The unexpected emergent As incident results in the high content of total arsenic in the surface sediment, which may be potential secondary source to the elevated As levels in surface water.

Keywords river sediments      arsenic      species distribution      binding phases      unexpected discharge of high-As wastewater     
Corresponding Author(s): LIU Huijuan,Email:hjliu@rcees.ac.cn   
Issue Date: 01 August 2013
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Ruiping LIU,Wei XU,Kun WU, et al. Species distribution of arsenic in sediments after an unexpected emergent discharge of high-arsenic wastewater into a river[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng, 0, (): 568-578.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fese/EN/Y0/V/I/568
Fig.1  Image of sampling sites along the Dasha River. The triangle symbols stand for sampling sites and the pentagram symbols stand for the center of cities
Fig.2  Content of As(III) in different binding phases within sediments at different cross sections along the Dasha River: (a) Layer 2-cm; (b) Layer 4-cm; (c) Layer 6-cm; and (d) Layer 16-cm
Fig.3  Content of As(V) in different binding phases within sediments at different cross sections along the Dasha River: (a) Layer 2-cm; (b) Layer 4-cm; (c) Layer 6-cm; and (d) Layer 16-cm
Fig.4  Average ratios of (a) As(III) and (b) As(V) in different binding phases within sediments at different layers
Fig.5  Content of As(III) and As(V) and the D(0.5) values within the sediments in Cross Section A1 to A4 at diffident depth of 2, 4, 6, and 16 cm
Fig.6  Content of As(III), As(V), and OC within the sediments in Cross Section A1 to A4 at diffident depth of 2, 4, 6, and 16 cm
As content in sedimentsD (0.5) valuesOCcontent of Fecontent of MnAs levels of in aqueous phase
As at Layer-2 cm0.890.760.250.890.44
As at Layers of 2cm to 16 cm0.030.380.000.060.14
Tab.1  values for the relativity analysis between the content of As in sediments and the sediments character for the sediments at different cross-sections from A1 to A4
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