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Identification and quantification of diffuse groundwater pollution in a mineralised watershed

AARON TODD, Iain Robertson Orcid Logo, Patrick Byrne Orcid Logo, Rory Walsh, Tom Williams Orcid Logo, Paul Edwards Orcid Logo

Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 668 - 676

Swansea University Authors: AARON TODD, Iain Robertson Orcid Logo, Rory Walsh

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A tracer injection and synoptic sampling experiment was carried out in a tributary catchment of the River Tywi (Carmarthenshire, Wales) during a very low streamflow event to locate and quantify sources of groundwater metal pollution from the abandoned Nantymwyn Pb mine. High resolution sampling at 2...

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Published in: Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology
ISSN: 2053-1400 2053-1419
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2024
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title Identification and quantification of diffuse groundwater pollution in a mineralised watershed
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Rory Walsh
title_short Identification and quantification of diffuse groundwater pollution in a mineralised watershed
title_full Identification and quantification of diffuse groundwater pollution in a mineralised watershed
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description A tracer injection and synoptic sampling experiment was carried out in a tributary catchment of the River Tywi (Carmarthenshire, Wales) during a very low streamflow event to locate and quantify sources of groundwater metal pollution from the abandoned Nantymwyn Pb mine. High resolution sampling at 22 stream locations and 12 inflows along a 2 km stretch of the Nant y Bai was deployed. This high spatial resolution sampling technique allowed point and diffuse sources of metal pollution to be identified enabling their contribution to the overall stream load to be quantified. It was found that the highest proportion of filtered Zn load originated from diffuse groundwater sources from the upper mine tailings (43%), and that the highest proportion of filtered Pb load originated from diffuse groundwater sources from the lower mine tailings (40%), with smaller inputs from a field on the River Tywi floodplain. These results demonstrate that tracer dilution and synoptic sampling is a powerful tool to locate and apportion diffuse sources of groundwater metal pollution in small, mineralised watersheds.
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