Heavy metals in post-exploitation reservoirs – the Bagry Lake case study (Poland)
Authors:
- Andrzej Bielski,
- Anna Czaplicka
Abstract
The paper presents the research study on the concentration of Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd and Ca in the sediment as well as in the supernatant (layer of water just above the sediment) of the Bagry Lake, Cracow (Poland); Ca was not included in the supernatant analysis. There are a number of works in the literature on the concentrations of metals in the water environment of flow-through dam reservoirs and factors influencing their distribution. These reservoirs were created for various purposes, e.g., water supply, flood protection, leveling the flows in the rivers and recreational purposes. Since it is difficult to find information on metals and factors influencing their distribution in the aquatic environment of post-exploitation reservoirs, this work aims to fill this gap. The additional purpose of the work was to assess the potential influence of metals’ presence in the sediment of Bagry Lake on benthic organisms. Correlations between metals in the sediment and their volatile and mineral fractions as well as in particle size fractions of ≥0.06 mm and <0.06 mm were determined. Except for cadmium, metals showed a positive correlation with the sediment volatile fraction of granulometry <0.06 mm (a clay-silty fraction). It has been shown that metals, in both supernatant and sediment, are of an anthropogenic origin related to previous on-lake operations, as well as a nearby modern technical infrastructure. Statistical models were used to measure the strength of relationships between the concentration of various metals in the sediments. A cluster analysis was used to study interactions between the concentration of metals in supernatant, in sediment and in its volatile and mineral fractions as well as in fractions with different granulation. It was found that individual metals and sediment fractions form pairs of quite strong clusters, e.g., Fe sediments and Mn sediments, Fe supernatant and Mn supernatant, Cu supernatant and Pb supernatant, volatile fraction and mass fraction of particles < 0.06 mm and mineral fraction and mass fraction of particles ≥ 0.06 mm. The equilibrium model "supernatant – sediment mineral fraction – sediment volatile fraction" was developed for metals in various granulometric fractions of the sediment as well as in the supernatant. The model estimated a metal concentration in both fractions of the sediment (separately) as well as an impact they had on the metal concentration in the supernatant. It also showed how changes in a metal’s concentration in both fractions are reflected in concentrations of metals in the aquatic environment.
- Record ID
- CUT5d4483fa1f4d43b09dedbee24b255934
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Applied Sciences-Basel, ISSN 2076-3417, Monthly
- Issue year
- 2023
- Vol
- 13
- No
- 10
- Pages
- [1-30]
- Article number
- 5884
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 29-30; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 46; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 13, Iss. 10
- Substantive notes
- This article belongs to the Special Issue: Contaminants Occurrence, Transport and Reactivity in Aquatic Ecosystems and Utilities
- Keywords in English
- heavy metals, reservoir, sediment, supernatant, absorption model, cluster analysis
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- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/app13105884 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/10/5884 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 100
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT5d4483fa1f4d43b09dedbee24b255934/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT5d4483fa1f4d43b09dedbee24b255934
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