Organic pollutants in riparian wetlands of the Lippe river Germany

1 Organic pollutants in riparian wetlands of the Lippe river (Germany)  

Aquatic particulate matter is an important sink for numerous lipophilic anthropogenic contaminants as the result of adsorption and accumulation processes. In the adsorbed state organic contaminants can be subject to transformation as well as to transportation processes within the river system. The anthropogenic contribution to the organic load of river systems can be attributed mainly to sewage effluents derived from industrial and domestic point sources, to agricultural emissions or to shipping activities. Numerous specific compounds reflect the different sources of pollution and, therefore, are frequently detected in river systems. 

In the present, prelimenary study (see also chapter 5.2.2) we have extended these investigations to a wide variety of organic contaminants reflecting the state of pollution in a more comprehensive way. Detailed 

A sediment core from a floodplain of the Lippe river, a tributary of the Rhine river (Germany) was taken in 1989/90 by the North-Rhine Westphalian Environment Agency. 

Chlorinated aliphatics T etrachlorobutadiene Pentachlorobutadiene Hexachlorobutadiene Bis(chloropropyl)ether 

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Heim S, Schwarzbauer J, Kronimus A, Littke R, Hembrock-Heger A (2003). Organic pollutants in riparian wetlands of the Lippe river (Germany). Environ Chem Lett, 1, 169-173... 

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