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1Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. gavin@geosci.usyd.edu.au
Abstract:
The current work aimed to compile existing information to better understand the source, fate and effects of metallic contaminants in one catchment-receiving basin system (Iron Cove) in Sydney Harbour (Australia). Copper, Pb and Zn concentrations of potential source materials, i.e. soils (mean 62, 410 and 340 microg g(-1), respectively) and road dust (mean 160, 490 and 520 microg g(-1), respectively) and in materials being transported to the estuary, i.e. in gully pots (mean 110, 200 and 260 microg g(-1) for Cu, Pb, and Zn, respectively), in bedload (mean 210, 880 and 1700 microg g(-1), respectively) and particulates in canals draining the catchment (mean 325, 290 and 1865 microg g(-1), respectively) were highly enriched. Estuarine sediments in the receiving basin are enriched 20 times over pre-anthropogenic concentrations and are toxic to benthic animals at the canal mouths. Stormwater remediation is required to reduce metal loads to the adjacent estuary.
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