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Evaluation of artificial grooves for collecting bottom sediment pollutants in Lake Chaohu, China

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Internal loadings of nutrients play important roles in the eutrophication of shallow lakes. The effective removal of sediments rich in nutrients is of great importance for lake management and the abatement of eutrophication. In this study, grooves were installed in the bottom of Lake Chaohu. Approximately 8.5 months later, the chlorophyll a, organic matter, and total nitrogen contents in the sediment inside the grooves were 1.5-3.0 times, 1.2-1.8 times, and 1.3-1.6 times higher, respectively, than those in the surrounding sediments, and the total phosphorus contents in the bottom grooves were slightly lower than those in the surrounding sediments. The thicknesses of the sediments with high chlorophyll a, organic matter, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus contents in the grooves were 5-15 times greater than those of the surrounding sediments with high pollution contents. Internal pollution was captured in the grooves. The active hydrodynamic process was an important factor related to the effectiveness of this method and is conducive to the transport of polluted sediments to the bottom grooves where they are collected. Bottom grooves have broad application potential for the removal of sediments rich in nutrients from shallow-water lakes; these grooves can be widely used in areas that experience large disturbances from wind waves, have water flows gathering in or entering the lake, or have thin sediments with high pollution contents. This study provides scientific guidance for the control and management of internal pollution in shallow lakes.

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Acknowledgements

We thank LetPub (www.letpub.com) and AJE for its linguistic assistance during the preparation of this manuscript. Thanks to Yan Wang and Jian Cui for their help in the field experiment. Acknowledgement for the data support from “National Geographic Resource Science SubCenter, National Earth System Science Data Center, National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China. (http://gre.geodata.cn).”

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This research was supported by the State Major Project for Water Pollution Control and Management (Grant No. 2017ZX07603-005) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42007360).

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    Yihui Zhang, Weiping Hu & Yuemin Hu

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Yihui Zhang, Weiping, Hu and Yuemin Hu. The draft of the manuscript was written by Yihui Zhang, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhang, Y., Hu, W. & Hu, Y. Evaluation of artificial grooves for collecting bottom sediment pollutants in Lake Chaohu, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 32347–32358 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-12889-8

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