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Reconstruction of historical lead contamination and sources in Lake Hailing, Eastern China: a Pb isotope study

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The history records of lead and its stable isotopic ratios were determined in a sediment core to receive anthropogenic impacts on the Lake Hailing in eastern China. The sediment core was dated based on 210Pb, 137Cs, and 239+240Pu. The historical changes of Pb/Al and Pb isotope ratios showed increasing trend upward throughout the core, suggesting changes in energy usage and correlating closely with the experience of a rapid economic and industrial development of the catchment, Linyi City, in eastern China. Based on the mixing end member model of Pb isotope ratios, coal combustion emission dominated anthropogenic Pb sources in the half part of the century contributing 13 to 43 % of total Pb in sediment. Moreover, contributions of chemical and organic fertilizer were 1–13 and 5–14 %, respectively. In contrast, the contribution of leaded gasoline was low than 8 %. The results indicated that historical records of Pb contamination predominantly sourced from coal combustion and chemical and organic fertilizer in the catchment. In addition, an increase of coal combustion source and fertilizers was found throughout the sediment core, whereas the contribution of leaded gasoline had declined after 2000s, which is attributed to the phaseout of leaded gasoline in China.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 41406055), Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse (no. PCRRF11024), the Project of Innovation for Undergraduate in Jiangsu Province (no. SY201511641107001), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education (no. 14KJB170001), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (no. 2014M561973), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Qingdao City, the Natural Science Foundation of Lianyungang Government (no. SH1506 and no. JNHB-016) and the Natural Science Foundation of Huaihai Institute of Technology (no. Z2014017).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Rui Zhang & Tiegang Li

  2. School of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Huaihai Institute of Technology, Lianyungang, 222005, Jiangsu Province, China

    Rui Zhang, Minglei Guan, Yujie Shu, Liya Shen, Xixi Chen & Tingchen Jiang

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Huaihai Institute of Technology, Lianyungang, 222005, Jiangsu Province, China

    Fan Zhang

  4. Institute of Jiangsu Coastal Zone Enviroment, Lianyungang, 222005, Jiangsu Province, China

    Tingchen Jiang

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Zhang, R., Guan, M., Shu, Y. et al. Reconstruction of historical lead contamination and sources in Lake Hailing, Eastern China: a Pb isotope study. Environ Sci Pollut Res 23, 9183–9191 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6166-7

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