Chemosensory Bioassay of Toxicity of Lake Waters Contaminated with Heavy Metals from Mining Effluents

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.E. Thompson ◽  
T.J. Hara
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Complex Formation ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Salvelinus Alpinus ◽  
Depressing Effect ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Depressive Effect ◽  
Natural Lake ◽  
Olfactory Organs ◽  
Lake Waters

Abstract The toxicity of natural lake waters contaminated with heavy metals from mining effluents was studied by perfusing water samples through the olfactory organs of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) while recording the olfactory bulbar electrical responses to the standard stimulant, L-serine. Of the five lake waters tested, only Ross Lake, the closest to the mining-smelting site, showed significant depressing effect on the olfactory response at levels as high as 100 times dilution. Chemical analysis of lake waters revealed that Ross Lake had the highest concentrations of heavy metals; 43 μg/1 Cd, 98 μg/1 Cu, <15 μg/1 Ni and 7720 μg/1 Zn. Single component experiments showed that Cu and Cd are probably responsible for most of the depressive effect. The depressive effect of natural lake water was less than that of an artificial lake water composed of heavy metals based on the natural lake concentrations. Possible involvement of complex formation of heavy metals in the reduction of their toxicity is discussed.

scholarly journals Phosphorous Supply to a Eutrophic Artificial Lake: Sedimentary versus Groundwater Sources

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
Wiebe Förster ◽  
Jan C. Scholten ◽  
Michael Schubert ◽  
Kay Knoeller ◽  
Nikolaus Classen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Pore Water ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Eutrophic Lake ◽  
Stable Water Isotopes ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Sediment Pore Water ◽  
Mass Balance Models

The eutrophic Lake Eichbaumsee, a ~1 km long and 280 m wide (maximum water depth 16 m) dredging lake southeast of Hamburg (Germany), has been treated for water quality improvements using various techniques (i.e., aeration plants, removal of dissolved phosphorous by aluminum phosphorous precipitation, and by Bentophos® (Phoslock Environmental Technologies, Sydney, Australia), adsorption) during the past ~15 years. Despite these treatments, no long-term improvement of the water quality has been observed and the lake water phosphorous content has continued to increase by e.g., ~670 kg phosphorous between autumn 2014 and autumn 2019. As no creeks or rivers drain into the lake and hydrological groundwater models do not suggest any major groundwater discharge into the lake, sources of phosphorous (and other nutrients) are unknown. We investigated the phosphorous fluxes from sediment pore water and from groundwater in the water body of the lake. Sediment pore water was extracted from sediment cores recovered by divers in August 2018 and February 2019. Diffusive phosphorous fluxes from pore water were calculated based on phosphorus gradients. Stable water isotopes (δ2H, δ18O) were measured in the lake water, in interstitial waters in the banks surrounding the lake, in the Elbe River, and in three groundwater wells close to the lake. Stable isotope (δ2H, δ18O) water mass balance models were used to compute water inflow/outflow to/from the lake. Our results revealed pore-water borne phosphorous fluxes between 0.2 mg/m2/d and 1.9 mg/m2/d. Assuming that the measured phosphorous fluxes are temporarily and spatially representative for the whole lake, about 11 kg/a to 110 kg/a of phosphorous is released from sediments. This amount is lower than the observed lake water phosphorous increase of ~344 kg between April 2018 and November 2018. Water stable isotope (δ2H, δ18O) compositions indicate a water exchange between an aquifer and the lake water. Based on stable isotope mass balances we estimated an inflow of phosphorous from the aquifer to the lake of between ~150 kg/a and ~390 kg/a. This result suggests that groundwater-borne phosphorous is a significant phosphorous source for the Eichbaumsee and highlights the importance of groundwater for lake water phosphorous balances.

Assessment of nutrients and heavy metals in the surface sediments of the artificially lake water reservoir Karla, Thessaly, Greece

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 4483-4493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Skordas ◽  
Efstratios Kelepertzis ◽  
Dimitrios Kosmidis ◽  
Panagiota Panagiotaki ◽  
Dimitrios Vafidis
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Water Reservoir

scholarly journals Lake water dissolved inorganic carbon dynamics revealed from monthly measurements of radiocarbon in the Fuji Five Lakes, Japan

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Ota ◽  
Yusuke Yokoyama ◽  
Yosuke Miyairi ◽  
Shinya Yamamoto ◽  
Toshihiro Miyajima
Keyword(s):  
Lake Water ◽  
Inorganic Carbon ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Human Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lake Waters ◽  
Reservoir Age

Lakes are sensitive recorders of anthropogenic activities, as human society often develops in their vicinity. Lake sediments thus have been widely used to reconstruct the history of environmental changes in the past, anthropogenic, or otherwise, and radiocarbon dating provides chronological control of the samples. However, specific values of radiocarbon in different carbon reservoirs due to the different pathways of radiocarbon from the upper atmosphere to the lake, called the radiocarbon reservoir age, is always difficult to evaluate because of dynamic processes in and around lakes. There are few systematic studies on radiocarbon reservoir ages for lakes owing to the complex radiocarbon transfer processes for lakes. Here, we investigate lake waters of the Fuji Five Lakes with monthly monitoring of the radiocarbon reservoir effects. Radiocarbon from dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) for groundwater and river water is also measured, with resulting concentrations (Δ14C) at their lowest at Lake Kawaguchi in August 2018 (–122.4 ± 3.2‰), and at their highest at Lake Motosu in January 2019 (–22.4 ± 2.5‰), despite a distance of 25 km. However, winter values in both lakes show similar trends of rising Δ14C (about 20‰). Our lake water DIC Δ14C results are compared to previously published records obtained from sediments in Lake Motosu and Lake Kawaguchi. These suggest that total organic carbon and compound-specific radiocarbon found in sediments are heavily influenced by summer blooms of aquatic organisms that fix DIC in water. Thus, future studies to conduct similar analyses at the various lakes would be able to provide further insights into the carbon cycle around inland water, namely understanding the nature of radiocarbon reservoir ages.

scholarly journals WATER CLARITY MAPPING IN KERINCI AND TONDANO LAKE WATERS USING LANDSAT 8 DATA

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Trisakti ◽  
Nana Suwargana ◽  
I Made Parsa
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Atmospheric Correction ◽  
Total Suspended Solid ◽  
Water Clarity ◽  
Suspended Solid ◽  
Lake Ecosystem ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lake Waters

Land conversion occurred in the lake catchment area caused the decreasing of water quality in many lakes of Indonesia. According to Lake Ecosystem Management Guidelines from Ministry of Environment, tropic state of lake water is one of parameters for assessing the lake ecosystem status. Tropic state can be indicated by the quantity of nitrogen, phosphorus, chlorophyll, and water clarity. The objective of this research is to develop the water quality algorithm and map the water clarity of lake water using Landsat 8 data. The data were standardized for sun geometry correction and atmospheric correction using Dark Object Subtraction method. In the first step, Total Suspended Solid (TSS) distributions in the lake were calculated using a semi empirical algorithm (Doxaran et al., 2002), which can be applied to a wide range of TSS values. Secchi Disk Transparency (SDT) distributions were calculated using our water clarity algorithm that was obtained from the relationship between TSS and SDT measured directly in the lake waters. The result shows that the water clarity algorithm developed in this research has the determination coefficient that reaches to 0,834. Implementation of the algorithm for Landsat 8 data in 2013 and 2014 showed that the water clarity in Kerinci Lake waters was around 2 m or less, but the water clarity in Tondano Lake waters was around 2 – 3 m. It means that Kerinci Lake waters had lower water clarity than Tondano Lake waters which is consistent with the field measurement results.

Survival of Two Bacterial Fish Pathogens (Aeromonas salmonicida and the Enteric Redmouth Bacterium) in Ozonated, Chlorinated, and Untreated Waters

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Wedemeyer ◽  
Nancy C. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Lake Water ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Free Water ◽  
Hard Water ◽  
Etiologic Agent ◽  
Aeromonas Salmonicida ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Fish Pathogens ◽  
Chlorine Residual ◽  
Lake Waters

Ozone and chlorine inactivation curves were determined in three water types at 20 °C for the destruction of the fish pathogens Aeromonas salmonicida, the etiologic agent of furunculosis, and the enteric redmouth bacterium (ERM). In phosphate-buffered distilled water, 0.01 mg/ℓ ozone inactivated 103 cells/ml of ERM and A. salmonicida in 1/2 and 10 min, respectively. Chlorine at this concentration had little effect on either pathogen and a residual of at least 0.05 mg/ℓ was needed to achieve a complete kill within a 10-min contact time. In soft lake water (30 mg/ℓ as CaCO3) a chlorine residual of 0.1 mg/ℓ rapidly [Formula: see text] inactivated A. salmonicida and ERM but in hard water (120 mg/ℓ) A. salmonicida was more resistant and 0.2 mg/ℓ chlorine was required. Ozonation of the two lake waters at 90 mg O3∙h−1∙ℓ−1 (equivalent to a 0.01 mg/ℓ residual in ozone demand-free water) was required to destroy both pathogens within 10 min.In untreated soft lake water 103 cells/ml of A. salmonicida survived only 2 days, while the ERM bacterium (103 cells/ml) survived even after 20 day s in soft and hard untreated lake waters.

Studies of the Hydrobiology of a Tropical Lake in North-western Queensland. I. Seasonal Changes in Chemical Characteristics

1979 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 579 ◽  
Author(s):  
TP Farrell ◽  
CM Finlayson ◽  
DJ Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Ionic Composition ◽  
Sampling Period ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Chemical Characteristics ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Heavy Metal Concentrations ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Major Nutrients ◽  
Lake Waters ◽  
North Western

The chemical characteristics of the water of Lake Moondarra, an artificial lake in tropical north-western Queensland, are described. Changes in ionic composition, and in the concentrations of major nutrients and heavy metals, were monitored over a 12 month sampling period. Seasonal variations within the lake were strongly influenced by climatic conditions, principally rainfall which affects run-off and dilution by way of the intermittently flowing river and creeks. The results show that, in spite of the considerable input of nutrients, their concentration in the lake waters remains consistently low. The heavy metal concentrations in the lake water are also well below the limits regarded as acceptable for drinking water.

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