Sources and Sinks of Filtered Total Mercury and Concentrations of Total Mercury of Solids and of Filtered Methylmercury, Sinclair Inlet, Kitsap County, Washington, 2007?10 - Softcover

Paulson, Anthony J; Dinicola, Richard S; Noble, Mariene A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150049495X ISBN 13: 9781500494957

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The majority of filtered total mercury in the marine water of Sinclair Inlet originates from salt water flowing from Puget Sound. About 420 grams of filtered total mercury are added to Sinclair Inlet each year from atmospheric, terrestrial, and sedimentary sources, which has increased filtered total mercury concentrations in Sinclair Inlet (0.33 nanograms per liter) to concentrations greater than those of the Puget Sound (0.2 nanograms per liter). The category with the largest loading of filtered total mercury to Sinclair Inlet included diffusion of porewaters from marine sediment to the water column of Sinclair Inlet and discharge through the largest stormwater drain on the Bremerton naval complex, Bremerton, Washington. However, few data are available to estimate porewater and stormwater releases with any certainty. The release from the stormwater drain does not originate from overland flow of stormwater. Rather total mercury on soils is extracted by the chloride ions in seawater as the stormwater is drained and adjacent soils are flushed with seawater by tidal pumping. Filtered total mercury released by an unknown freshwater mechanism also was observed in the stormwater flowing through this drain.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150049495X
• ISBN 13: 9781500494957
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 106
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