Abstract
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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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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