Agricultural and Biological Sciences
8 years ago

French waterways face PCB contamination crisis as sediment resuspension worsens pollution.

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
PCB fluxes from the sediment to the water column following resuspension – A column experiment
Philippe Bataillard, Anne-Gwénaëlle Guézennec, Christophe Mouvet, Blandine Clozel, Pascal E. Reiller, Fanny d’Orlyé, Juliana Lecourt, Doucet Noëlle

Paper Summary

French rivers and lakes have PCB contamination in their sediments. Scientists used special columns to study how PCBs move from sediment to water when disturbed. They found that these columns can help understand PCB behavior in water and sediment.

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