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Micropollutants in urban stormwater: occurrence, concentrations, and atmospheric contributions for a wide range of contaminants in three French catchments

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This study aimed at: (a) providing information on the occurrence and concentration ranges in urban stormwater for a wide array of pollutants (n = 77); (b) assessing whether despite the differences between various catchments (land use, climatic conditions, etc.), the trends in terms of contamination level are similar; and (c) analyzing the contribution of total atmospheric fallout (TAF) with respect to sources endogenous to this contamination. The studied contaminants include conventional stormwater contaminants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Zn, Cu, Pb, etc.), in addition to poorly or undocumented pollutants such as nonylphenol and octylphenol ethoxylates (NPnEO and OPnEO), bisphenol A (BPA), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a wide variety of pesticides, and various metals of relevance (As, Ti, Sr, V). Sampling and analysis were performed using homogeneous methods on three urban catchments with different land use patterns located in three distinct French towns. For many of these pollutants, the results do not allow highlighting a significant difference in stormwater quality at the scale of the three urban catchments considered. Significant differences were, however, observed for several metals (As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Sr and Zn), PAHs, and PBDEs, though this assessment would need to be confirmed by further experiments. The pollutant distributions between dissolved and particulate phases were found to be similar across the three experimental sites, thus suggesting no site dependence. Lastly, the contributions of TAF to stormwater contamination for micropollutants were quite low. This finding held true not only for PAHs, as previously demonstrated in the literature, but also for a broader range of molecules such as BPA, NPnEO, OPnEO, and PBDEs, whose high local production is correlated with the leaching of urban surfaces, buildings, and vehicles.

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Acknowledgments

This study has been conducted within the framework of the INOGEV research program, which was funded by the French National Research Agency (under its “Villes Durables” program). The authors would like to thank all project partners, namely the Greater Lyon and RM&C Water Agency, the Nantes Metropolitan Council, the Val-de-Marne Council for their technical and financial support, as well as the three Observatories OPUR, OTHU, and ONEVU plus the SOERE URBIS for their scientific contributions.

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  1. Université Paris-Est, LEESU, UMR-MA 102-AgroParisTech, 6-8 avenue Blaise Pascal Cité Descartes, 77455, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    J. Gasperi, C. Mirande, E. Caupos, M. Saad, P. Dubois, R. Moilleron, G. Chebbo & M. C. Gromaire

  2. Université de Lyon, INSA Lyon, Université Lyon 1, LGCIE, 34 avenue des Arts, 69621, Villeurbanne cedex, France

    C. Sebastian & S. Barraud

  3. Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’Aménagement et des Réseaux, Route de Bouaye, BP 4129, 44341, Bouguenais cedex, France

    V. Ruban, M. Delamain, S. Percot & D. Demare

  4. Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Analytiques—UMR 5280, CNRS, Université Lyon1, ENS-Lyon, Equipe TRACES, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100, Villeurbanne, France

    L. Wiest, C. Fratta & C. Cren

  5. Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l’Energie, l’Environnement et la Santé, UMR 7515, 26 rue Becquerel, 67087, Strasbourg cedex 2, France

    M. Diallo Kessoo Kessoo, J. J. Schwartz, H. Wolff & M. Millet

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Gasperi, J., Sebastian, C., Ruban, V. et al. Micropollutants in urban stormwater: occurrence, concentrations, and atmospheric contributions for a wide range of contaminants in three French catchments. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 5267–5281 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-2396-0

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