Sea Level Rise Induced Arsenic Release from Historically Contaminated Coastal Soils
Abstract
Climate change-induced perturbations in the hydrologic regime are expected to impact biogeochemical processes, including contaminant mobility and cycling. Elevated levels of geogenic and anthropogenic arsenic are found along many coasts around the world, most notably in south and southeast Asia but also in the United States, particularly along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The mechanism by and the extent to which arsenic may be released in contaminated coastal soils due to sea level rise are unknown. Here we show a series of data from a coastal arsenic-contaminated soil exposed to sea and river waters in biogeochemical microcosm reactors across field-validated redox conditions. We find that reducing conditions lead to arsenic release from historically contaminated coastal soils through reductive dissolution of arsenic-bearing mineral oxides in both sea and river water inundations, with less arsenic release from seawater scenarios than river water due to inhibition of oxide dissolution. For the first time, we systematically display gradation of solid phase soil-arsenic speciation across defined redox windows from reducing to oxidizing conditions in natural waters by combining biogeochemical microcosm experiments and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Here, our results demonstrate the threat of sea level rise stands to impact arsenic release from contaminated coastal soils by changing redoxmore »
- Authors:
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[1];
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS (United States)
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Wuppertal, Wuppertal (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1434765
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-203482-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0013-936X
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-936X
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; sea level rise; arsenic, geochemistry; soil chemistry; XANES; redox
Citation Formats
LeMonte, Joshua J., Stuckey, Jason W., Sanchez, Joshua Z., Tappero, Ryan, Rinklebe, Jorg, and Sparks, Donald L. Sea Level Rise Induced Arsenic Release from Historically Contaminated Coastal Soils. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b06152.
LeMonte, Joshua J., Stuckey, Jason W., Sanchez, Joshua Z., Tappero, Ryan, Rinklebe, Jorg, & Sparks, Donald L. Sea Level Rise Induced Arsenic Release from Historically Contaminated Coastal Soils. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06152
LeMonte, Joshua J., Stuckey, Jason W., Sanchez, Joshua Z., Tappero, Ryan, Rinklebe, Jorg, and Sparks, Donald L. Thu .
"Sea Level Rise Induced Arsenic Release from Historically Contaminated Coastal Soils". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06152. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1434765.
@article{osti_1434765,
title = {Sea Level Rise Induced Arsenic Release from Historically Contaminated Coastal Soils},
author = {LeMonte, Joshua J. and Stuckey, Jason W. and Sanchez, Joshua Z. and Tappero, Ryan and Rinklebe, Jorg and Sparks, Donald L.},
abstractNote = {Climate change-induced perturbations in the hydrologic regime are expected to impact biogeochemical processes, including contaminant mobility and cycling. Elevated levels of geogenic and anthropogenic arsenic are found along many coasts around the world, most notably in south and southeast Asia but also in the United States, particularly along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The mechanism by and the extent to which arsenic may be released in contaminated coastal soils due to sea level rise are unknown. Here we show a series of data from a coastal arsenic-contaminated soil exposed to sea and river waters in biogeochemical microcosm reactors across field-validated redox conditions. We find that reducing conditions lead to arsenic release from historically contaminated coastal soils through reductive dissolution of arsenic-bearing mineral oxides in both sea and river water inundations, with less arsenic release from seawater scenarios than river water due to inhibition of oxide dissolution. For the first time, we systematically display gradation of solid phase soil-arsenic speciation across defined redox windows from reducing to oxidizing conditions in natural waters by combining biogeochemical microcosm experiments and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Here, our results demonstrate the threat of sea level rise stands to impact arsenic release from contaminated coastal soils by changing redox conditions.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.est.6b06152},
journal = {Environmental Science and Technology},
number = 11,
volume = 51,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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