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Chlorinated and methylated dibenzothiophenes in sediment samples from a river contaminated by organochlorine wastes

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Eleven sediment samples from the lower Kymijoki River were analyzed for the occurrence of polychlorinated and polymethylated dibenzothiophenes (PCDT and PMeDTs). The area was heavily polluted by wastes from a pulp chlorobleachery and by leakage from a factory producing wood preservative chlorophenol formulation Ky-5. Levels in the sediments were from <5 to 400, 200 and 50 pg g-1 dw for tetra, penta and hexa-CDT, respectively. The concentrations of mono, di, tri and tetra-MeDTs were in the range of 1–5, 5–85, 5–500 and 15–2300 ng g-1 dw, respectively. PCDT contents in surface sediment (0–3 cm layers) decreased by distance downstream from the bleachery and Ky-5 factory similar to those of the bound polychloroguaiacols (PCG) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF). In contrast, PMeDT contents showed a steep increase by distance with a maximum at 32 km downstream.

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Abbreviations

PBDE:

polybrominated diphenyl ethers

PCB:

polychlorobiphenyls

PCCC:

polychlorocatechols

PCDD:

polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins

PCDE:

polychlorinated diphenyl ethers

PCDF:

polychlorinated dibenzofurans

PCDT:

polychlorinated dibenzothiophenes

PCFI:

polychlorofluorenes

PCG:

polychloroguaiacols

PCN:

polychloronaphthalenes

PCP:

polychlorophenols

PCPP:

polychlorinated phenoxyphenols

PCSyr:

polychlorosyringyls

PCVan:

polychlorovanillins

PMeDT:

polymethylated dibenzothiophenes

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    Seija Sinkkonen, Jaakko Paasivirta & Mirja Lahtiperä

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Sinkkonen, S., Paasivirta, J. & Lahtiperä, M. Chlorinated and methylated dibenzothiophenes in sediment samples from a river contaminated by organochlorine wastes. J Soils & Sediments 1, 9–14 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986463

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