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Interactions between calcite precipitation (natural and artificial) and phosphorus cycle in the hardwater lake

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The influence of calcite precipitation on the phosphorus cycle in stratified hardwater lake was studied before and during experiments with a new restoration technique. Surveys of the chemical composition of water column and monitoring of settling particles of Lake Luzin (North–East) showed that calcite precipitation occurs each year over 2–3 periods during spring and summer. The change of the phosphorus content influenced the calcite precipitation intensity. The sedimentation fluxes of phorphorus and the calcite precipitation were closely associated. Based on the hypothesis that calcite precipitation acts as an improvement to the trophic state by enhancing the internal phosphorus sink, this new technology for lake restoration was developed. The hypolimnetic Ca(OH)2 addition during summer stratification in 1996–1997 induced the calcite precipitation in the deep water layer of Basin Carwitz of Lake Schmaler Luzin. The treatment also supported the natural calcite precipitation in the epilimnion. The annual total phosphorus content decreased from 0.46 tons in 1995 to 0.35 tons in 1997. The annual SRP content decreased from 0.02 tons in 1996 to 0.01 tons in 1997 after beginning the artificial calcite precipitation in 1996. The decrease of the annual Chl-a concentration in 1998 on 38% compared with that in 1996 pointed out the lake recovering. According to the one box model, the artificial calcite precipitation affected the P cycle in the lake by suppressing the P release from the sediments.

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, EAWAG, Limnological Research Center, CH-6047, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

    Maria Dittrich

  2. Dept. of Limnology of Stratified Lakes, Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, D-16775, Stechlin, Germany

    Rainer Koschel

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Dittrich, M., Koschel, R. Interactions between calcite precipitation (natural and artificial) and phosphorus cycle in the hardwater lake. Hydrobiologia 469, 49–57 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015571410442

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