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| Title |
A Fresh Look at Road Salt: Aquatic Toxicity and Water-Quality Impacts on Local, Regional, and National Scales
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| Published in |
Environmental Science & Technology, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1021/es101333u |
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| Authors |
Steven R. Corsi, David J. Graczyk, Steven W. Geis, Nathaniel L. Booth, Kevin D. Richards |
| Abstract |
A new perspective on the severity of aquatic toxicity impact of road salt was gained by a focused research effort directed at winter runoff periods. Dramatic impacts were observed on local, regional, and national scales. Locally, samples from 7 of 13 Milwaukee, Wisconsin area streams exhibited toxicity in Ceriodaphnia dubia and Pimephales promelas bioassays during road-salt runoff. Another Milwaukee stream was sampled from 1996 to 2008 with 72% of 37 samples exhibiting toxicity in chronic bioassays and 43% in acute bioassays. The maximum chloride concentration was 7730 mg/L. Regionally, in southeast Wisconsin, continuous specific conductance was monitored as a chloride surrogate in 11 watersheds with urban land use from 6.0 to 100%. Elevated specific conductance was observed between November and April at all sites, with continuing effects between May and October at sites with the highest specific conductance. Specific conductance was measured as high as 30,800 μS/cm (Cl = 11,200 mg/L). Chloride concentrations exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) acute (860 mg/L) and chronic (230 mg/L) water-quality criteria at 55 and 100% of monitored sites, respectively. Nationally, U.S. Geological Survey historical data were examined for 13 northern and 4 southern metropolitan areas. Chloride concentrations exceeded USEPA water-quality criteria at 55% (chronic) and 25% (acute) of the 168 monitoring locations in northern metropolitan areas from November to April. Only 16% (chronic) and 1% (acute) of sites exceeded criteria from May to October. At southern sites, very few samples exceeded chronic water-quality criteria, and no samples exceeded acute criteria. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 2% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 316 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 63 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 54 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 50 | 15% |
| Researcher | 44 | 13% |
| Professor | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 39 | 12% |
| Unknown | 62 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 113 | 35% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 48 | 15% |
| Engineering | 27 | 8% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 22 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 23 | 7% |
| Unknown | 82 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 238. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 October 2023.
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#169,127
of 26,559,762 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science & Technology
#262
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Outputs of similar age
#381
of 107,903 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science & Technology
#2
of 130 outputs
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