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Rosendo Mendoza, Julián Martínez, Javier Rey, M. Carmen Hidalgo and M. José Campos-Suñol
This study analyses the distribution of the total metal(loid)s content accumulated in the sediments of the Grande River, the most important river course that runs through the old mining district of La Carolina (Jaén, Spain), whose waters are collected in...
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Yue Yu, Zhixin Qi, Sinan Fu, Xinping Yu, Wenxin Li and Deqi Xiong
The floating oil can drift to the coastal areas and interact with the shoreline substrates after oil spill accidents. This process is demonstrated to be the cause of the formation of oil-contaminated sediments, which has attracted much attention. However...
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Marziali Laura, Gianni Tartari, Franco Salerno, Lucia Valsecchi, Clara Bravi, Erika Lorenzi, Pietro Genoni and Licia Guzzella
Reservoirs are characterized by accumulation of sediments where micropollutants may concentrate, with potential toxic effects on downstream river ecosystems. However, sediment management such as flushing is needed to maintain storage capacity. Climate ch...
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Marziali Laura, Gianni Tartari, Franco Salerno, Lucia Valsecchi, Clara Bravi, Erika Lorenzi, Pietro Genoni, Licia Guzzella
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Reservoirs are characterized by accumulation of sediments where micropollutants may concentrate, with potential toxic effects on downstream river ecosystems. However, sediment management such as flushing is needed to maintain storage capacity. Climate ch...
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Zhaowei Wang, Bo Li, Yuanshu Sun and Wenchao Yang
There are more than 150 ports in China and a considerable proportion of dredged sediments in ports and waterways are contaminated with heavy metals as the typical contaminants. It is mandatory to remediate the contaminated dredged sediments prior to furt...
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Juan C. Sanchez-Hernandez, Jose A. Sáez, Alberto Vico, Joaquín Moreno and Raúl Moral
The olive-oil industry generates large amounts of residues that, in the past, were accumulated in evaporating ponds in many Mediterranean countries. Currently, these open-air ponds pose a serious environmental hazard because of toxic chemicals that conce...
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Francesca Sollecito, Claudia Vitone, Daniela Miccoli, Michael Plötze, Alexander M. Puzrin and Federica Cotecchia
The city of Taranto in the south of Italy is one of the areas declared as ?at high risk of environmental crisis? by the Italian government because it represents one of the most complex industrial sites in Europe, located near urban areas of high populati...
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Simone Becarelli, Giacomo Bernabei, Giovanna Siracusa, Diego Baderna, Monica Ruffini Castiglione, Giampiero De Simone and Simona Di Gregorio
To accelerate the depletion of total petroleum hydrocarbons, a hydrocarburoclastic ascomycetes, Lambertella sp. MUT 5852, was bioaugmented to dredged sediments co-composting with a lignocellulosic matrix. After only 28 days of incubation, a complete depl...
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Ahmed Abdelaal, Ahmed I. Abdelkader, Fahad Alshehri, Asmaa Elatiar and Sattam A. Almadani
This study assessed the spatiotemporal variability and pollution grades of heavy metals in water and sediments of Bahr El-Baqar drain, Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt, by integration of geochemical analysis, metal pollution indices, correlation, and multivaria...
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Antonella Marsico, Angela Rizzo, Domenico Capolongo, Francesco De Giosa, Antonella Di Leo, Stefania Lisco, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Massimo Moretti, Giovanni Scardino and Giovanni Scicchitano
Contaminated marine and coastal sediments represent the main source of secondary pollution for the aquatic environment and marine fauna, affecting, directly and indirectly, ecosystems and human health. The assessment of the distribution of chemical pollu...
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Ping Guo, Wei-Wei Xu, Dan-Na Wei, Man-Xia Zhang, Jin Zhang, Shi Tang, Bin-Xia Cao, Jian-Guo Lin and Wei Li
The removal of oil contaminants in marine intertidal sediments under cold climate is an urgent issue. Although the bioavailability of petroleum hydrocarbons decreases at low temperatures, biosurfactants can promote oil biodegradation. In this study, char...
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Diana De Padova, Mouldi Ben Meftah, Francesca De Serio and Michele Mossa
Unfortunately, more and more contaminants, such as heavy metals and other organic micro-pollutants, degrade the good ecological status of marine systems. The removal of contaminated sediments from harbours through dredging activities may cause harmful ch...
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Roberto Zonta, Daniele Cassin, Roberto Pini and Janusz Dominik
The Venice canal network requires periodic intervention to remove sediments that progressively accumulate. The most recent dredging operation was carried out in the second half of the 1990s and early 2000s. These sediments had accumulated over a period o...
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Michael O?Shea, Kim Gray and Jimmy Murphy
The occurrence of contaminated materials encountered during harbour dredging is becoming increasingly problematic for harbour and port authorities. The risks to human health, wildlife and port infrastructure of exposure to such contaminants necessitates ...
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Min Zhang, Xiangchun Wang, Long Yang and Yangyang Chu
Heavy metals contaminated sediment has become a worldwide environmental issue due to its great harm to human and aquatic organisms. Thus, economical, effective, and environmentally-friendly remediation technologies are urgently needed. Among which, combi...
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Youssra Ahouach, Abdennasser Baali, Abdellah Boushaba, Oualid Hakam, Khalil Azennoud, Aziza Lyazidi, Safaa Benmessaoud, Amine Assouguem, Mohammed Kara, Mona Abdullah Alsaigh, Amal M. Al-Mohaimeed and Tse-Wei Chen
In order to qualify and quantify the impact of sediment contamination in hydric settings by metallic trace elements (MTE) emanating from the controlled dump of Fez city (northern Morocco), leachate and sediment sample analyses were carried out. The leach...
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Jakob Windisch, Andreas Gradwohl, Beric Michael Gilbert, Quinton Marco Dos Santos, Gabriele Wallner, Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage and Franz Jirsa
The upper reaches of the Crocodile River (West) system are located in the western basin of the Witwatersrand mountain chain, an area heavily influenced by gold mining. After the spill of highly acidic and contaminated mining-influenced water into the riv...
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Nipada Santha, Saowani Sangkajan and Schradh Saenton
This research aimed to investigate the spatial distribution of arsenic concentrations in shallow and deep groundwaters which were used as sources for drinking and domestic and agricultural uses. A geochemical modeling software PHREEQC was used to simulat...
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Jude Ofei Quansah, Seung-Hee Hong, Chang-Gu Lee and Seong-Jik Park
We investigated the applicability of oyster (OS) and mussel shells (MS) as capping materials to inhibit the movement of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from river sediments. OS and MS are difficult to dispose of as waste, and have been used environmental...
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Kai Ziervogel, Manoj Kamalanathan and Antonietta Quigg
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean. The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the comp...
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