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Nitrogen and phosphorus associating with different size suspended solids in roof and road runoff in Beijing, China

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Roofs and roads, accounting for a large portion of the urban impervious land surface, have contributed significantly to urban nonpoint pollution. In this study, in Beijing, China, roof and road runoff are sampled to measure the suspended solids (SS), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) contained in particles with different sizes. The SS content in the road runoff (151.59 mg/L) was sevenfold that in the roof runoff (21.13 mg/L, p < 0.05). The SS contained more coarse particulates in the roof runoff than in road runoff. The small particulates in the range of 0.45–50 μm consisted of 59 % SS in the roof runoff and 94 % SS in the road runoff. P was mainly attached to particle sizes of 10–50 μm in the roof (73 %) and road (48 %) runoffs, while N was mainly in a dissolved phase state in both runoffs. So, the different associations of N and P raise a challenge in preventing stormwater pollution in urban environments.

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This study was supported in part by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (Grant No. 41230633 and 41030744).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Processes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, No. 9, Block 4, Renminnanlu Road, P.O. Box: 417, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Junliang Wu, Xuemei Wang & Gangcai Liu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box: 2871, Beijing, 100085, China

    Junliang Wu, Yufen Ren, Xiaoke Wang & Liding Chen

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Junliang Wu & Xuemei Wang

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Wu, J., Ren, Y., Wang, X. et al. Nitrogen and phosphorus associating with different size suspended solids in roof and road runoff in Beijing, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 15788–15795 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4743-9

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