Marine organisms around outfall pipes in Santa Monica Bay
Journal Article
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· J. Water Pollut. Control Fed.; (United States)
OSTI ID:7314422
Large quantities of trace metals are released annually through a wastewater control plant's submarine outfall system, resulting in contamination of bottom sediments on the Palos Verdes Shelf. Levels of silver, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, and zinc have been measured in Dover sole, a flatfish inhabiting bottom sediments, collected from the discharge region and the Santa Barbara Channel. Despite enhancements of trace metals in Palos Verdes sediments by factors ranging from 2 to 150, no overall pattern of tissue uptake was observed in the flesh liver, and gonads of fish trawled from those contaminated sediments. Analysis of trace metals in the flesh, liver, gonads, kidney, heart, brain, and gill arches of diseased and healthy Palos Verdes Dover sole revealed significant enhancements of chromium in the liver and kidney, and lead in the kidney of diseased fish; significant depressions were observed in the gonadal and heart tissues.
- OSTI ID:
- 7314422
- Journal Information:
- J. Water Pollut. Control Fed.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Water Pollut. Control Fed.; (United States) Vol. 48:8; ISSN JWPFA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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AQUATIC ORGANISMS
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FISHES
GLANDS
GONADS
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LIQUID WASTES
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MUSCLES
NERVOUS SYSTEM
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ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION
BODY
BRAIN
CADMIUM
CALIFORNIA
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHROMIUM
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COPPER
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DISEASES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FISHES
GLANDS
GONADS
HEART
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
KIDNEYS
LEAD
LIQUID WASTES
LIVER
METALS
MONITORING
MUSCLES
NERVOUS SYSTEM
NICKEL
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
SEDIMENTS
SHIPS
SILVER
SUBMARINES
TRACE AMOUNTS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
UPTAKE
USA
VERTEBRATES
WASTE WATER
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WESTERN REGION
ZINC