Toxicity of Total Dissolved Solids Associated With Two Mine Effluents to Chironomid Larvae and Early Lifestages of Rainbow Trout

Chapman, Peter M.; Bailey, Howard C.; Canaria, Edmund

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“…While some amount of constituents that comprise the dissolved solids is needed for plant and animal growth and for agricultural, domestic, municipal, and industrial purposes, excessively elevated concentrations affect aquatic ecosystems and water users through salt accumulation in soils, encrustment or corrosion of metallic surfaces, and altered osmotic conditions in living tissues (Ayers and Westcot, 1994; Chapman et al. , 2000; Scannell and Jacobs, 2001; Bureau of Reclamation, 2005).…”

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“…In large basins with little natural recharge to flush the groundwater system, dissolved solids carried in the excess irrigation water may accumulate in the soil, and if infiltration is great enough, enter the groundwater and accumulate in the aquifer due to long residence times. While some amount of constituents that comprise the dissolved solids is needed for plant and animal growth and for agricultural, domestic, municipal, and industrial purposes, excessively elevated concentrations affect aquatic ecosystems and water users through salt accumulation in soils, encrustment or corrosion of metallic surfaces, and altered osmotic conditions in living tissues (Ayers and Westcot, 1994;Chapman et al, 2000;Scannell and Jacobs, 2001;Bureau of Reclamation, 2005). In the U.S. portion of the Colorado River Basin, the damage costs to agricultural, municipal, and industrial users of water high in dissolved-solids concentrations are estimated to range from US$500 million to US$750 million per year (Bureau of Reclamation, 2005).…”

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Modeled Sources, Transport, and Accumulation of Dissolved Solids in Water Resources of the Southwestern United States1

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Information on important source areas for dissolved solids in streams of the southwestern United States, the relative share of deliveries of dissolved solids to streams from natural and human sources, and the potential for salt accumulation in soil or groundwater was developed using a SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes model. Predicted area-normalized reach-catchment delivery rates of dissolved solids to streams ranged from <10 (kg/year)/km2 for catchments with little or no natural or human-related solute sources in them to 563,000 (kg/year)/km2 for catchments that were almost entirely cultivated land. For the region as a whole, geologic units contributed 44% of the dissolved-solids deliveries to streams and the remaining 56% of the deliveries came from the release of solutes through irrigation of cultivated and pasture lands, which comprise only 2.5% of the land area. Dissolved-solids accumulation is manifested as precipitated salts in the soil or underlying sediments, and (or) dissolved salts in soil-pore or sediment-pore water, or groundwater, and therefore represents a potential for aquifer contamination. Accumulation rates were <10,000 (kg/year)/km2 for many hydrologic accounting units (large river basins), but were more than 40,000 (kg/year)/km2 for the Middle Gila, Lower Gila-Agua Fria, Lower Gila, Lower Bear, Great Salt Lake accounting units, and 247,000 (kg/year)/km2 for the Salton Sea accounting unit.

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Modeled Sources, Transport, and Accumulation of Dissolved Solids in Water Resources of the Southwestern United States1

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Structural and functional aspects of treated mine water and aquaculture effluent streams

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Viadero

2007

Hydrobiologia

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Multiple effluent streams may flow into a single receiving stream making it difficult to understand the effects of a single effluent source or the interactions between effluents. In this study, we examined benthic community structure and function in an effluent stream formed by the release of treated mine water, in treated mine water that had been used as a water source for flow-through aquaculture and below the confluence of the two. This study demonstrated that macroinvertebrate communities, while taxonomically simple, developed in treated mine water. The addition of aquaculture effluent to the treated mine water allowed colonization by additional taxa, increased leaf decomposition rates and may have conferred resistance to a turbidity event. Ecosystem responses were mediated by the surrounding terrestrial environment. In shaded conditions macroinvertebrate densities could be as much as 10· higher and the taxa were dominated by simuliids and chironomids, while in open conditions filamentous algae flourished and the taxa were dominated by hydroptilids and chironomids. Consequently, consideration of stream processes that promote preferred ecological processes, such as macroinvertebrate production and organic matter processing, when siting effluent streams may reduce impacts on receiving streams.

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Characterization of Ash-Basin Waters from a Risk-Based Perspective

Dorman

Rodgers

Castle

2009

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Toxicity of Total Dissolved Solids Associated With Two Mine Effluents to Chironomid Larvae and Early Lifestages of Rainbow Trout

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Modeled Sources, Transport, and Accumulation of Dissolved Solids in Water Resources of the Southwestern United States1

Modeled Sources, Transport, and Accumulation of Dissolved Solids in Water Resources of the Southwestern United States1

Structural and functional aspects of treated mine water and aquaculture effluent streams

Characterization of Ash-Basin Waters from a Risk-Based Perspective

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