Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Remobilization of trace metals induced by microbiological activities near sediment-water interface, Aha Lake, Guiyang

  • Reports
  • Published:
Chinese Science Bulletin

Abstract

The Aha Lake, as a seasonally oxygen-absent man-made reservoir, has been polluted by acidic mining drainage and domestic sewages for a long time, with iron, manganese and sulfate excessively enriched in water and sediment. By means of microbe counting, the analysis of trace metals in pore water and electronic acceptors for organic matter decomposing, we have found that strong biogeochemical remobilization of trace metals occurred near the water-sediment interface. The microbial reduction of iron, manganese and sulfate took place in different parts throughout the sediment core with the extend of iron reduction lower than that of sulfate reduction, which happened in the surficial sediments and hampered the upward release of some trace metals to some extent. Some trace metals in pore water, due to the “dual releasing” effects caused by the reduction of Fe3+ and Mn4+ at varying depth, show a tendency of being enriched excessively in the upper 10 cm of sediment. In this study, we discussed the microbiological mechanism of trace metals enrichment in surficial sediments and the environmental condition, with an attempt to realize the unsteady mobilization of trace metals and their potential harm to overlying lake water in the Aha Lake, Guiyang.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Perry, K. A., Sulfate-reducing bacteria and immobilization of metals, Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 1995, 13: 33–39.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Ronco, A., Camilion, C., Manassero, M., Geochemistry of heavy metals in bottom sediments from streams of the western coast of the Rio De La plata estuary, Argentina, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2001, 23: 89–103.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Van Den Berg, G. A., Gustav Loch, J. P., Van Der Heijdt, L. M. et al., Mobilization of heavy metals in contaminated sediments in the river Meuse, The Netherlands, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 1999, 116: 567–586.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Ma, T. J., Wan, G. J., Liu, C. Q. et al., Seasonal migration of redox boundary and its effects on water quality in Lake Lugu, Yunnan Province, Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae (in Chinese), 2000, 20(1): 27–32.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Douglas, G. B., Adeney, J. A., Diagenetic cycling of trace elements in the bottom sediments of the Swan River Estuary, Western Australia, Applied Geochemistry, 2000, 15: 551–556.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Harrington, J. M., Laforce, M. J., Rember, W. C. et al., Phase associations and mobilization of iron and trace elements in Coeur d’Alene Lake, Idaho, Environ. Sci. Technol., 1998, 325: 650–656.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Balistrieri, L. S., The biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the water column of Lake Sammamish, Washington: response to seasonally anoxic conditions, Limnol. Oceanogr., 1992, 37(3): 529–548.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Nealson, K. H., Saffarini, D., Iron and manganese in anaerobic respiration: Environmental significance, physiology and regulation, Annu. Rev. Microbial., 1994, 48: 311–343.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Francis, A. J., Dodge, C. J., Aerobic and anaerobic microbial dissolution of toxic metals from coal wastes: mechanism of action, Environ. Sci. Technol., 1989, 23(4): 435–441.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Francis, A. J., Dodge, C. J., Anaerobic microbial remobilization of toxic metals coprecipitated with iron oxide, Environ. Sci. Technol., 1990, 24: 373–378.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Watson, J. H. P., Ellwood, D. C., Deng, Q., Mikhalovsky, S., et al. Heavy metal adsorption on bacterially produced FeS, Minerals Engineering, 8, 1995, 10: 1097–1108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Thamdrup, B., Roeesllo-Mora, R., Amann, R., Microbial manganese and sulfate reduction in Black Sea shelf sediments, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2000, 66(7): 2888–2897.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Zhang, W. G., Yu, L. Z., Xu, Y. et al., Iron reduction in tidal flat sediment indicated by magnetic measurements and its significance in heavy metal pollution study. Chinese Science Bulletin (in Chinese), 1998, 43(19): 2114–2118.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Chen, Z. L., Pu, Y., Huang, R. G. et al., Seasonal release of Fe and Mn at the sediment-water interface in Aha Lake, Chinese Science Bulletin, 1996, 41(16): 1359–1363.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Wang, Y. C., Huang, R. Q., Wan, G. J., Newly developed sample for collecting samples near the lacustrine sediment-water interface, Geology-Geochemistry, 1998(1): 94–96

  16. Zachara, J. M., Fredrickson, J. K., Smith, S. C. et al., Solubilization of Fe(III) oxide-bound trace metals by a dissimilatory Fe(III) reducing bacterium, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2001, 65(1): 75–93.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Nevin, K. P., Lovley, D. R., Mechanisms for accessing insoluble Fe(III) oxide during dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction by Geothrix fermentans, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2002, 68(5): 2294–2299.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Roden, E. E., Tuttle, J. H., Sulfide release from estuarine sediments underlying anoxic bottom water, Limnol. Oceanogr., 1992, 37(4): 725–738.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Cummings, D. E., March, A. W., Bostick, B. et al., Evidence for microbial Fe(III) reduction in anoxic, mining-impacted lake sediments (lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2000, 66(1): 154–162.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Francis, C. A., Obraztsova, A. Y., Tebo, B. M., Dissimilatory metal reduction by the facultative anaerobe Pantoea agglomerans SP1, Applied and environmental microbiology, 2000, 66(2): 543–548.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Qu, D., Sylvia Schnell. Microbial reduction ability of various iron oxides in pure culture experiment, Acta Microbiologica Sinica, 2001, 41(6): 745–749.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Tan, Y. Y., Zheng, P., Jiang, X., Organic contaminants’ bio-degradation with Fe(III), Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric and Life Science), 2002, 28(3): 350–354.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Lee, G., Bigham, J. M., Faure, G., Removal of trace metals by co-precipitation with Fe, Al and Mn from natural waters contaminated with acid mine drainage in the Ducktown Mining District, Tennessee, Applied Geochemistry, 2002, 17: 569–581.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Davison, W., Iron and manganese in lakes, Earth-Science Review, 1993, 34: 119–163.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. El Bilali, L., Rasmussen, P. E., Hall, G. E. M. et al., Role of sediment composition in trace metal distribution in lake sediments, Applied Geochemistry, 2002, 17: 1171–1181.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Elderfield, H., Sholkovitz, E. R., Rare earth element in the pore waters of reducing nearshore sediments, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1987, 82: 280–288.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Stumm, W., Morgan, J. J., An introduction emphasizing chemical equilibria in natural waters, Aquatic Chemistry, 2nd N.Y, Wiley: 1981.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Banfield, J. F., Nealson, K. H., Geomicrobiology: Interactions Between Microbes and Minerals, The Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, D. C., USA, 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Krom, M. D., Mortimer, R. J. G., Poulton, S. W. et al., In-situ determination of dissolved iron production in recent marine sediments, Aquat. Sci., 2002, 64: 282–291.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, 550002, Guiyang, China

    Fushun Wang, Congqiang Liu, Xiaobing Liang & Zhongqing Wei

  2. The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100039, Beijing, China

    Fushun Wang & Zhongqing Wei

Authors
  1. Fushun Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Congqiang Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Xiaobing Liang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Zhongqing Wei
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Congqiang Liu.

About this article

Cite this article

Wang, F., Liu, C., Liang, X. et al. Remobilization of trace metals induced by microbiological activities near sediment-water interface, Aha Lake, Guiyang. Chin.Sci.Bull. 48, 2352–2356 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1360/03wd0013

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1360/03wd0013

Keywords

Search

Navigation