DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.02.028
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84922592221
论文题名: An assessment of the influence of sulfidic mine wastes on rainwater quality in a semiarid climate (SE Spain)
作者: Alcolea A ; , Fernández-López C ; , Vázquez M ; , Caparrós A ; , Ibarra I ; , García C ; , Zarroca M ; , Rodríguez R
刊名: Atmospheric Environment
ISSN: 0168-2563
EISSN: 1573-515X
出版年: 2015
卷: 107 起始页码: 85
结束页码: 94
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Rainwater pollution
; Short-range transport
; Sierra Minera de Cartagena - La Unión
; Sulfidic mine waste
; Total deposition
Scopus关键词: Alkalinity
; Atmospheric movements
; Deposition
; Health risks
; Lead
; Pollution
; Potable water
; Rain
; Sediment transport
; Urban growth
; Water quality
; Weather information services
; Zinc
; Atmospheric transport
; Future projections
; Mine wastes
; Mining activities
; Physico-chemical characterization
; Rainwater quality
; Short-range transport
; World Health Organization
; Climate change
; aluminum hydroxide
; arsenic
; cadmium
; calcium
; chloride
; copper
; drinking water
; hydrogen
; lead
; magnesium
; nickel
; nitrate
; potassium
; rain
; sodium
; sulfate
; zinc
; abandoned mine
; atmospheric transport
; environmental impact assessment
; guideline
; human activity
; mine waste
; mining
; physicochemical property
; precipitation quality
; rainwater
; sediment transport
; semiarid region
; sulfide
; water quality
; acid mine drainage
; alkalinity
; Article
; atmosphere
; conductance
; electric conductivity
; limit of detection
; mining
; particulate matter
; pH
; precipitation
; priority journal
; sediment transport
; semiarid climate
; Southern Europe
; Spain
; waste water
; water quality
; wet deposition
; Spain
Scopus学科分类: Environmental Science: Water Science and Technology
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Earth-Surface Processes
; Environmental Science: Environmental Chemistry
英文摘要: This study assessed the influence of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena - La Unión mining wastes on the surrounding areas, due to the sediment transport in the atmosphere. Monitoring of 15 weather stations located in the Campo de Cartagena land (SE Spain) was performed in the period December, 2004-March, 2008. A total of 920 rainfall water samples were collected and analyzed in this study. The network of weather stations covered a wide range of soil use and human activities (industrial, urban, agricultural, and mining sites). The physicochemical characterization involved determination of pH, EC, major ions, and the metals of interest in the soluble fraction of rainwater. Precipitations had an alkaline pH (7.0-7.9) and, compared to World Health Organization guidelines for drinking-water quality, samples were characterized by low EC (76-930μS/cm), Ni (0.1-8μg/L), Cu (3-88μg/L), As (0.04-2μg/L), Na+ (3-16mg/L), K+ (0.41-30mg/L), Ca2+ (6-51mg/L), Mg2+ (up to 5mg/L), Cl- (4-23mg/L), NO3- (1-30mg/L), and SO42- (4-35mg/L) values. In certain locations, Zn, Cd, and Pb exceeded the guideline limits. A downward trend of H+, Zn, Cd, and Pb concentrations in total depositions was observed while the distance to the area affected by mining activities increased in the first 20km. Rainwater quality was found to be just subtly affected by the metal-sulfide abandoned minesites, but without presenting a current threat to neither public health nor natural ecosystem. Nevertheless, greater attention should be paid in the future projections of climate change, where a significant increase in aridity may favor the atmospheric transport of pollutant particles. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/81855
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作者单位: Servicio de Apoyo a la Investigación Tecnológica, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain; UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio, Departamento de Ciencias Politécnicas, Campus de los Jerónimos, s/n, Guadalupe, Murcia, Spain; Departamento de Ingeniería Minera, Geológica y Cartográfica, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain; Departamento de Geología, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Ríos Rosas, 23, Madrid, Spain
Recommended Citation:
Alcolea A,, Fernández-López C,, Vázquez M,et al. An assessment of the influence of sulfidic mine wastes on rainwater quality in a semiarid climate (SE Spain)[J]. Atmospheric Environment,2015-01-01,107