Multivariate relationships between groundwater chemistry and toxicity in an urban aquifer

Dewhurst, R. E., Wells, N. C., Crane, M., Callaghan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2731-3352, Connon, R. and Mather, J. D. (2003) Multivariate relationships between groundwater chemistry and toxicity in an urban aquifer. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 22 (11). pp. 2813-2821. ISSN 0730-7268 doi: 10.1897/01-332

Abstract/Summary

Multivariate statistical methods were used to investigate file Causes of toxicity and controls on groundwater chemistry from 274 boreholes in an Urban area (London) of the United Kingdom. The groundwater was alkaline to neutral, and chemistry was dominated by calcium, sodium, and Sulfate. Contaminants included fuels, solvents, and organic compounds derived from landfill material. The presence of organic material in the aquifer caused decreases in dissolved oxygen, sulfate and nitrate concentrations. and increases in ferrous iron and ammoniacal nitrogen concentrations. Pearson correlations between toxicity results and the concentration of individual analytes indicated that concentrations of ammoinacal nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, ferrous iron, and hydrocarbons were important where present. However, principal component and regression analysis suggested no significant correlation between toxicity and chemistry over the whole area. Multidimensional Scaling was used to investigate differences in sites caused by historical use, landfill gas status, or position within the sample area. Significant differences were observed between sites with different historical land use and those with different gas status. Examination of the principal component matrix revealed that these differences are related to changes in the importance of reduced chemical species.

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Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords	landfill, contaminated, urban, groundwater, LANDFILL LEACHATE, IDENTIFICATION, QUALITY
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