Organic pollutants in soils of retention and recharge basins receiving urban runoff water

Journal Article · Sun Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Soil Sci.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1097/00010694-198711000-00008· OSTI ID:5273400

Nightingale, H I

The purpose of this 3-yr study was to determine the nature and possible accumulation of organic pollutants in the soils of retention/recharge basins designed to manage and conserve urban storm runoff water in a semiarid climate. There was no evidence of the accumulation of organophosphorus pesticides in the soils of five study basins. Of the organochlorine pesticides tested, chlordane was usually detected in surface soils. The highest concentration of chlordane was 2.7 mg kg/sup -1/ soil and decreased with dept to <0.03 mg kg/sup -1/ below 24 cm. DDT and DDE (mixed isomers) were not detected in any soil samples. Lindane was found only once in a turfed basin in the 0 to 2-cm depth at a concentration of 20 ..mu..g kg/sup -1/ soil. Oil and grease and total phenols were usually detected at low concentrations that generally decreased with depth. Concentrations of 48 semivolatile priority pollutants were below their analytical detection limits. Analyses for 43 purgeable compounds were also below detection limits except for two organic compounds (toluene and methyl cyclohexane) found in one soil sample from one basin. The polychlorinated biphenyl--Arochlor 1260--was detected in four of seven surface soils at concentrations <0.5 mg kg/sup -1/ soil.

• Research Organization: Dept. of Agriculture, Fresno, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5273400
• Journal Information: Soil Sci.; (United States), Journal Name: Soil Sci.; (United States) Vol. 144:5; ISSN SOSCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALKANES
ALKYLATED AROMATICS
AROMATICS
CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
CONTAMINATION
CYCLOALKANES
CYCLOHEXANE
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
LAND POLLUTION
MASS TRANSFER
OILS
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PESTICIDES
PHENOLS
POLLUTION
RUNOFF
SOILS
TOLUENE
URBAN AREAS