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Characterizing the Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Runoff from Roads and Other Impervious Surfaces in a Suburban Area of Beijing

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Stormwater runoff samples were collected from five different land use sites (gas station, city road, campus, park, and residential) in a precipitation event on May 22nd, 2017, from a small suburban area (5 km × 2 km) of the city of Beijing, China. There were 72 types of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) found in these runoff samples, including 33 types of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MAHs), 22 types of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), 6 types of phthalate esters (PAEs), 9 types of pesticides and 2 types of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Especially, 26 types of SVOCs (7 MAHs, 9 PAHs, 5 PAEs, and 5 pesticides) were detected in all water samples. SVOCs concentrations were higher in the samples from gas station and city road, and lower in runoff from campus, park and residential sites. The change in the ratio of anthracene to anthracene plus phenanthrene (ANT/(ANT + PHE)) in this study, reflected the importance of PAH source and land use. Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and di-n-butyl phthalate, are two of the phthalate esters 100% detected in the runoff samples. The city road runoff DEHP concentrations recorded the highest values (> 6000 ng/L), however, were still less than those wastewater DEHP pollutants measured in developed countries (e.g. UK, Canada, Finland, etc.). One-way ANOVA analysis in this study, showed that land use could significantly influence 23 SVOCs in the runoff samples, whereas the runoff SVOCs in different precipitation period showed no statistical changes in the five sites, and presented a general temporal trends “high (beginning)—low (middle period)—little raising (ending)”. The findings in this study could be used in municipal management of wastewater collection and treatment.

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source: Daxin Meteorological Office, City of Beijing). The red arrows represent the sampling time points (“0” min, 5th min, 15th min, 25th min, 40th min, and 50th min)

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This research was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0703300); The Fundamental Research Funds for Beijing Universities (X18106); Great Wall Scholars Program (CIT&TCD20170313); Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51678025) and Sponge City Development and Water Quantity & Quality Risk Control (UDC2016040100); Youth Top Talents Training Program of Beijing Municipal Education Commision (CIT&TCD201804052).

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  1. Beijing Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Urban Sewage System Construction and Risk Control, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, 100044, China

    Liang Zhang, Haiyan Li, Youshu Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Yongwei Gong & Hua Yang

  2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing, 100044, China

    Haiyan Li, Youshu Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Yongwei Gong & Hua Yang

  3. Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China

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    Zhichao Yang

  5. School of Water Resources and Environment, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Fei Liu & Linlin Tong

  6. School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Ying Wang

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Zhang, L., Li, H., Wang, Y. et al. Characterizing the Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Runoff from Roads and Other Impervious Surfaces in a Suburban Area of Beijing. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 82, 227–238 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00884-6

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