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Historical mass balance of cadmium decontamination trends in a major European continent-ocean transition system: Case study of the Gironde Estuary

机译：Historical mass balance of cadmium decontamination trends in a major European continent-ocean transition system: Case study of the Gironde Estuary

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Despite the effective remediation efforts following the end of the metallurgic activity thirty years ago upstream the Lot River watershed, the levels of cadmium (Cd) accumulated in wild oysters from the downstream Gironde Estuary still exceed nowadays the admissible human consumption limit (5 mg/kg, d.w.). The main goal of this work is to quantify the role of sediments as long-term intra-estuarine sources or sinks of Cd and the transport of this contaminant towards the estuary mouth taking as case study the example of the highly turbid Gironde Estuary. The original estimation for the annual net fluxes of the suspended particulate matter (F-netSPM(year ) ) and particulate Cd (F-netCd(pyear) ) presented in this work between 1990 and 2020 indicates that 80% of the Cd discharged into the ocean is in dissolved form (Cd-d). The values of F(net)(Cdp)( yea)r vary proportionally to those of F-netSPM(year) and ranged between 0.1 and 1.4 t/y, with a ten-year average decreasing from 0.8 to 0.6 t/y for the past 30 years. The differences between ten-year total (Cdp + Cdd) gross and net fluxes show that Cd has effectively been stored in estuarine sediments. This Cd storage was of about 43, 22 and 13 t for the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, respectively. However, during years of low gross fluxes, estuarine sediments act as additional, secondary sources of bioavailable/dissolved Cd into the water column, potentially relating to the continued observations of high Cd concentrations in wild oysters at the estuary mouth. In addition to the natural solubility of Cd-p along the salinity and turbidity gradients of the estuary, natural and anthropogenic remobilization of bottom sediment particles further contribute to its mobilization from the particle phase, along with other numerous inorganic/organic pollutants. The mass balances presented in this work could support a new sediment management policy potentially more beneficial to the estuarine ecosystem.

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