The significance of the floodplain to the cycling of metals in the river Derwent Catchment, U.K.

Bradley, S. B.; Cox, J. J.

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(90)90255-s

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“…Lead-rich sediments still pulse into the Trent tributaries in their upper catchments (Bradley and Cox, 1990) and can be stored in floodplain soils dowstream.…”

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Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

Izquierdo

Tye

Chenery

2012

Science of The Total Environment

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Alluvial soils are reservoirs of metal contaminants such as Pb that originate from many different sources and are integrated temporally and spatially through erosional and depositional processes. In this study the source, lability and solubility of Pb was examined in a range of alluvial soils from the middle and lower River Trent and its tributary the River Dove using Pb isotope apportionment and isotopic dilution. All samples were collected within 10 m of the river bank to represent the soil that is most likely to be remobilised during bank erosion. Paired samples were taken from the topsoil Pb ratios showed that the isotopic ratios of Pb in the total, labile and solution pools fitted along a mixing line between Broken Hill Type ('BHT') Pb, used as an additive in UK petrol, and the local coal/Sourthern Pennine ore Pb. Various anomalies were found in the Pb isotopes of the bankside alluvial soils which were explained by point source pollution. Statistically significant differences were found between (i) the isotopic composition of Pb in the total soil pool and the labile/solution pools and (ii) the isotopic composition of Pb in the labile and solution pools, suggesting an enrichment of recent non-Pennine sources of Pb entering the soils in the labile and solution pools.

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“…Lead-rich sediments still pulse into the Trent tributaries in their upper catchments (Bradley and Cox, 1990) and can be stored in floodplain soils dowstream.…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

Izquierdo

Tye

Chenery

2012

Science of The Total Environment

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“…This is not the case, however, with the Wye where, possibly as a function of additional mining-derived inputs, no clear downstream contamination dilution can be observed; by contrast, the burden increases downstream towards the Derwent confluence (Zhang, 2008). Sediment-borne Pb concentrations in fluvial soils downstream of the Mill Close Mine (the most productive of the Derbyshire Orefield) are also elevated above background Pb concentrations (Bradley and Cox, 1990). These concentrations do not, however, show clear trends either vertically or horizontally with distance from the river channel ( Figure 6; Bradley and Cox, 1990), suggesting long-lived, mining-related inputs of Pb to this area that may be continuing to the present day.…”

Section: Introduction Of Pb Into the Derwent Catchment By Fluvial Promentioning

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“…Sediment-borne Pb concentrations in fluvial soils downstream of the Mill Close Mine (the most productive of the Derbyshire Orefield) are also elevated above background Pb concentrations (Bradley and Cox, 1990). These concentrations do not, however, show clear trends either vertically or horizontally with distance from the river channel ( Figure 6; Bradley and Cox, 1990), suggesting long-lived, mining-related inputs of Pb to this area that may be continuing to the present day. For example, Bradley and Cox (1990) (Table 1).…”

Section: Introduction Of Pb Into the Derwent Catchment By Fluvial Promentioning

confidence: 93%

“…These concentrations do not, however, show clear trends either vertically or horizontally with distance from the river channel ( Figure 6; Bradley and Cox, 1990), suggesting long-lived, mining-related inputs of Pb to this area that may be continuing to the present day. For example, Bradley and Cox (1990) (Table 1). Clean-up operations carried out in June 2008 revealed that a much larger spill had occurred in 1968, and that many of those tailings remained within the floodplain sediments (Worrall, 2009).…”

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Industrial mining heritage and the legacy of environmental pollution in the Derbyshire Derwent catchment: Quantifying contamination at a regional scale and developing integrated strategies for management of the wider historic environment

Kossoff

Hudson‐Edwards

Howard

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS) exemplifies and records the 18 th century birth of the factory or mill technology, and for the industrial spinning of cotton. The site is therefore a key global heritage asset. The Derbyshire Derwent catchment also contains another significant cultural asset with a long history -that of mining and, in particular, lead (Pb) mining. In this paper research on mining-and non-mining related Pb contamination of the Derwent catchment is reviewed and used to identify the risks it poses to the DVMWHS.

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“…An indirect consequence of mining has been the release of metal-contaminated sediments into the environment, which have been deposited across the valley floor and is stored within the alluvium [32]. The release of contaminants initially commenced during mining, but importantly, is on-going through the erosion of spoil heaps and former processing areas; these deposits are akin to the agroindustrial alluvium reported in the northern Pennines [33].…”

Section: The Character Of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Sitementioning

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Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK

Howard

Knight

Coulthard

et al. 2016

Journal of Cultural Heritage

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Future climate change is likely to pose significant challenges for heritage management, especially in landscape settings such as river valleys as the magnitude, intensity and nature of geomorphological processes alter in response to changing threshold conditions. Industrial landscapes afford particular challenges for the heritage community, not only because the location of these historic remains is often intimately linked to the physical environment, but also because these landscapes can be heavily polluted by former (industrial) processes and, if released, the legacy of contaminants trapped in floodplain soils and sediments can exacerbate erosion and denudation. Responding to these challenges requires the development of methodologies that consider landscape change beyond individual sites and monuments and this paper reports the development of such an approach based on investigation of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, Derbyshire, UK. Information on geomorphological evolution of the Derwent Valley over the last 1000 years, a time period encompassing the last two periods of major climatic deterioration, the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, has been dovetailed with archaeological and geochemical records to assess how the landscape has evolved to past landscape change. However, in addition to assessing past evolution, this methodology uses national climate change scenarios to predict future river change using the CAESAR-Lisflood model. Comparison of the results of this model to the spatial distribution of World Heritage Site assets highlights zones on the valley floor where pro-active mitigation might be required. The geomorphological and environmental science communities have long used predictive computer modelling to help understand and manage landscapes and this paper highlights an approach and area of research cross-over that would be beneficial for future heritage management.

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The significance of the floodplain to the cycling of metals in the river Derwent Catchment, U.K.

Cited by 50 publications

References 14 publications

Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

Industrial mining heritage and the legacy of environmental pollution in the Derbyshire Derwent catchment: Quantifying contamination at a regional scale and developing integrated strategies for management of the wider historic environment

Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK

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