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Mobility and aquatic toxicity of copper in an urban watershed

Boulanger Bryan , Nikolaidis Nikolaos

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/EBA2604D-6AFB-4C4C-BCF1-BC926618B6AC-
Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04387.x-
Identifierhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04387.x/abstract-
Languageen-
Extent12 pagesen
TitleMobility and aquatic toxicity of copper in an urban watersheden
CreatorBoulanger Bryan en
CreatorNikolaidis Nikolaosen
CreatorΝικολαιδης Νικολαοςel
PublisherWileyen
Content SummaryAbundant use of copper based products has resulted in increased violation of copper water quality criteria in runoff from urban storm water systems. The objectives of this work were to understand the mobility and toxicity of copper in an urban watershed and to apportion the amount of copper entering the freshwater receiving stream from different urban land covers using a mass balance approach. Sixteen rainfall events collected from the University of Connecticut study watershed between August 1998 and September 2000 were analyzed to assess copper flux in an urban storm water system. Mean flow weighted dissolved copper concentrations observed in the study for copper based architectural material runoff, pervious area runoff, impervious area runoff, and in the receiving stream were 1210 ± 840, 9 ± 3, 8 ± 2, and 14 ± 7 μg/L, respectively. Mean dissolved copper concentrations in the receiving stream exceeded Connecticut's water quality criteria. Despite exceeding the dissolved concentration based criteria, cupric ion concentrations at the system outlet remained below 0.05 μg/L for all storms analyzed, and no acute toxicity (using Daphnia pulex as the test organism) was measured in samples collected from the stream. en
Type of ItemPeer-Reviewed Journal Publicationen
Type of ItemΔημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτέςel
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2015-10-22-
Date of Publication2007-
SubjectCopperen
Bibliographic CitationB. Boulanger and N. P. Nikolaidis, "Mobility and aquatic toxicity of copper in an urban watershed", Journal American Water Resources Association, Vol. 39, no2, pp. 325-336, Apr. 2003. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04387.xen

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