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| Author(s): | Nightingale, Harry I. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Water Management Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2021 S. Peach Ave., Fresno, Calif. |
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| Title: | Organic Pollutants in Soils of Retention and Recharge Basins Receiving Urban Runoff Water. |
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| Source: | Soil Science. Vol. 144, No. 5, November 1987, p. 373-382. |
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| Publishing Information: | Rutgers University: Williams and Wilkins Company |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Pollutants; Surface runoff; Lawn turf; Urban soils; Pesticides
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| Abstract/Contents: | "The presence of many organic industrial and agricultural chemicals in urban storm-water runoff has been documented in various reports. 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 organophosphorous pesticides in the soils of the 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-1 soil and decreased with depth to <0.03 mg kg-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 20ug kg-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 their 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 of < 0.5 mg kg-1 soil. The results of this study indicate that pollution of the soils beneath the cited urban runoff retention/recharge basins by organic compounds was insignificant with the possible exception of chlordane. There was no evidence of man-made compounds having an unfavorable impact on the plants in the basins or on the use of the turfed basins for recreation during dry summer months." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 45 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: FILTER |
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| Note: | Tables |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Nightingale, H. I. 1987. Organic Pollutants in Soils of Retention and Recharge Basins Receiving Urban Runoff Water.. Soil Science. 144(5):p. 373-382. |
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