Micropollutants in Large Lakes
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This book aims in presenting insights into the physical, chemical, and ecological dynamics of large lakes that enable proposing recommendations for sustainable lake management regarding chemicals. Lake Geneva, Switzerland, is used as a case study, but the developed methodologies and tools can be useful for lake water quality management in general.
A first chapter is dedicated to the chemicals entering the lake through agriculture. These are mainly pesticides. After a review of the different types of compounds, the authors present the main pathways these compounds follow to enter the lake. The case of glyphosate, an herbicide largely used worldwide, is presented. A second chapter illustrates the urban source of pollutants with the case of pharmaceuticals and biocides. Two models are presented that allow estimating the load and the dynamic of these chemicals that may exit from an urban catchment and therefore reach a lake. Special attention will be paid to the `end of pipe’ removal of these compounds at a WWTP. A third chapter is dedicated to the lake circulation. The aim of this chapter is to present an overall description of the lake’s hydrodynamics, which is driven by three factors: wind, temperature and Coriolis forces. To achieve this aim, a hydrodynamic model is presented that allows describing the behavior of the top layer of the lake based on the wind direction. The importance of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes for characterizing the sources of water and the mixing processes in the lake is also described.
The next chapters are dedicated to a Bay, called the Vidy Bay, that receives the treated effluents of the largest wastewater treatment plant of the lake catchment. This latter represents therefore one of the major point sources of contaminants for lake Geneva. These two chapters will focus on the various processes that control the transfer of chemicals (associated to particles or in a dissolved state) discharged into the bay and transported to the lake’s main water body.
Then, a next chapter focuses on one major issue of chemicals in aquatic systems like lakes, i.e. the risk of the mixture of chemicals. The evaluation of the risk of mixture is not trivial and the models that allow doing it are presented in a critical way. Their validity as predictive tools is illustrated with the example of herbicides mixture in Lake Geneva.
A final chapter synthesizes the main findings and discusses some recommendations for the management of large lakes regarding micropollution.
Nathalie Chèvre is an ecotoxicologist, working for 15 years on environmental risk assessment of chemicals. She is an environmental engineer from EPFL and has a thesis in ecotoxicology. She worked in Montréal and Zurich (EAWAG). She is currently lecturer at the University of Lausanne. She coordinated the project Léman21 which results are presented in this book.
Introduction
Lakes as resources
Micropollutants in surface waters: a worldwide recognition of the issue
Book chapters
References
Agricultural sources of micropollutants: from the catchment to the lake
Agricultural sources of micropollutants of the catchment
Source and transport dynamics of glyphosate: a case study in Swiss vineyards
Synthesis and conclusions
References
Urban sources of micropollutants: From the catchment to the lake
Introduction
Micropollutants found in urban waters
Fate of micropollutants in WWTPs
Conclusions
References
Current of Lake Geneva
Introduction
Wind patterns on Lake Geneva
Hydrodynamic modeling
Vidy Bay current patterns
Transport of water within Lake Geneva based on the stable isotope compositional variations of water in Lake Geneva
Summary and conclusion
References
Occurrence, fate and ecotoxicological relevance of micropollutants in Vidy Bay
Introduction
The Vidy Bay – morphology and pollution source
Vidy Bay hydrodynamics
Spatio-temporal occurrence of micropollutants in Vidy Bay
Ecotoxicological risk associated to wastewater-derived micropollutants
Dilution and degradation processes affecting micropollutant concentrations in Vidy Bay
Modelling the micropollutants plume in the Vidy Bay
Environmental implications
References
Sediment-bound contaminant transport dynamics in and around Vidy Bay
Introduction
Hydrodynamics within the Bay
Contaminant path tracing and sediment focusing
Colloid and aggregate characterization
Vertical and lateral sedimentation pathways in Vidy Bay
Hydrodynamic conditions of Vidy Bay’s BBL
Conclusions
References
Mixture risk assessment of chemicals: from the theory to the application
Introduction
Mixture effect assessment theory
Risk assessment of chemical mixtures in the Lake Geneva catchment
Comparison with ecological data
Conclusion
References
Synthesis and perspectives
Sources of chemicals: the catchment
Understanding lake hydrodynamics as a prerequisite for the estimation of chemical behaviour
Behaviour of dissolved chemicals in a lake
Behaviour of sediment-bound chemicals in a lake
Risk assessment of the chemicals present in a lake
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bosa Roca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 739 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8153-7488-7 / 0815374887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8153-7488-6 / 9780815374886 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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