Evaluating the efficacy of DGT to quantify copper in stormwater at end-of-pipe

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In many cases, stormwater compliance monitoring is labor intensive, expensive, and largely unsuccessful in providing the data needed to support stormwater management goals. To help address these issues, diffusive gradients in thin film (DGTs), time-integrative passive samplers for metals, were evaluated to monitor copper in stormwater runoff. DGTs were co-located with traditional autosamplers within the stormwater conveyance systems at Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) to provide a direct comparison with composite sampling. DGTs were exposed in the laboratory to flow-averaged composite samples from NBSD stormwater conveyance systems. These experiments showed increasing uptake over time (range = 1.5-24 h) for copper, with positive, linear correlations (r2 > 0.980) between exposure duration and copper mass accumulated. However, it appears that the corresponding calculations of the DGT-labile fraction (CDGT) relative to the dissolved fraction fluctuated across the different exposure durations. In general, trends observed for CDGT measurements from the field were consistent with trends in the lab DGT exposures and traditional dissolved metal measurements from composite samples. Finally, time-weighted average copper concentrations from DGTs deployed for the first and second phases of storm events were within 30% of measurements from DGTs that were deployed for the entire storm event in the same stormwater vault. Cumulatively, these results show promise for continuous monitoring with DGTs as an approach that produces data more representative of exposure to the receiving environment during episodic events than data from traditional grab or composite chemistry sampling, and can represent significant cost savings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:235

Enthalten in:

Chemosphere - 235(2019) vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1125-1133

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hayman, N T [VerfasserIn]
Rosen, G [VerfasserIn]
Strivens, J E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

789U1901C5
Copper
Diffusive gradients in thin films
Journal Article
Metals
Monitoring
Runoff
Stormwater
Water Pollutants, Chemical

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.10.2019

Date Revised 28.10.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.07.009

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301689806