Micropollutants in Urban Stormwater: Occurrence, Concentrations, and Atmospheric Contributions for a Wide Range of Contaminants in Three French Catchments
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This study aimed at: (a) providing information on the occurrence and concentration ranges in urban stormwater for a wide array of pollutants (n = 77); (b) assessing whether despite the differences between various catchments (land use, climatic conditions, etc.), the trends in terms of contamination level are similar; and (c) analyzing the contribution of total atmospheric fallout (TAF) with respect to sources endogenous to this contamination. The studied contaminants include conventional stormwater contaminants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Zn, Cu, Pb, etc.), in addition to poorly or undocumented pollutants such as nonylphenol and octylphenol ethoxylates (NPnEO and OPnEO), bisphenol A (BPA), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a wide variety of pesticides, and various metals of relevance (As, Ti, Sr, V). Sampling and analysis were performed using homogeneous methods on three urban catchments with different land use patterns located in three distinct French towns. For many of these pollutants, the results do not allow highlighting a significant difference in stormwater quality at the scale of the three urban catchments considered. Significant differences were, however, observed for several metals (As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Sr and Zn), PAHs, and PBDEs, though this assessment would need to be confirmed by further experiments. The pollutant distributions between dissolved and particulate phases were found to be similar across the three experimental sites, thus suggesting no site dependence. Lastly, the contributions of TAF to stormwater contamination for micropollutants were quite low. This finding held true not only for PAHs, as previously demonstrated in the literature, but also for a broader range of molecules such as BPA, NPnEO, OPnEO, and PBDEs, whose high local production is correlated with the leaching of urban surfaces, buildings, and vehicles.
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Concentrations were found to be higher in stormwater catchments with high traffic volumes for PAH by Gasperi et al. and for some heavy metals and standard parameters by Järveläinen et al.
“Indeed, concentrations were found to be higher in stormwater catchments with high traffic volumes for PAH by Gasperi et al. [6] and for some heavy metals and standard parameters by Järveläinen et al. [27].”
From Micropollutants in Urban Stormwater Runoff of Different Land Uses (2021) · cites this paper as Gasperi et al. [6]
The lack of land use-related differences for most trace organics and heavy metals may be due to consideration of large stormwater catchments of mixed land use by most existing monitoring programs.
“This may be due to consideration of large stormwater catchments of mixed land use by most existing monitoring programs (e.g., [6,7,27,28]).”
From Micropollutants in Urban Stormwater Runoff of Different Land Uses (2021) · cites this paper as [6]
The biocide diuron was reported at 5 to 16-fold higher concentrations by Gasperi et al. and Zgheib et al. for France.
“In turn, the biocide diuron was reported at 5 to 16-fold higher concentrations by Gasperi et al.[6] and Zgheib et al.[7] for France.”
From Micropollutants in Urban Stormwater Runoff of Different Land Uses (2021) · cites this paper as [6]
Concentrations slightly above the 95%-prediction interval of this study were also reported by Gasperi et al. for isoproturon and AMPA, two pesticides/biocides with a predominant source in classical weed control.
“Concentrations slightly above the 95%-prediction interval of this study were also reported by Gasperi et al.[6] for isoproturon and AMPA (metabolite of glyphosate), two pesticides/biocides, which have a predominant source in classical weed control.”
From Micropollutants in Urban Stormwater Runoff of Different Land Uses (2021) · cites this paper as [6]
BDE-209 had the highest concentration (0.251 μg/L) among flame retardants, as reported in Gasperi et al. (2014).
“Among them, many are polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), with BDE-209 displaying the highest concentrations (0.251 μg/L) reported in Gasperi et al. (2014).”
From Review of trace organic chemicals in urban stormwater: Concentrations, distributions, risks, and drivers (2024) · cites this paper as Gasperi et al., 2014
Traffic volumes correlate with concentrations of PAHs and phthalates.
“Specifically, for TrOCs, traffic volumes were often found to correlate with concentrations of PAHs (Gasperi et al., 2014;Gunawardena et al., 2018;Wicke et al., 2021), and phthalates (Wicke et al., 2021).”
From Review of trace organic chemicals in urban stormwater: Concentrations, distributions, risks, and drivers (2024) · cites this paper as Gasperi et al., 2014
There is very little information on the range of micropollutants composing the runoff matrix from trafficked areas and their concentration levels.
“there is very little information on the range of micropollutants composing the runoff matrix from trafficked areas and their concentration levels.”
From Micropollutants in Urban Runoff from Traffic Areas: Target and Non-Target Screening on Four Contrasted Sites (2022) · cites this paper as [7]
Runoff pollution remains poorly documented, except for relatively few historical pollutants such as some metals and hydrocarbons.
“runoff pollution remains poorly documented, except for relatively few historical pollutants such as some metals and hydrocarbons.”
From Micropollutants in Urban Runoff from Traffic Areas: Target and Non-Target Screening on Four Contrasted Sites (2022) · cites this paper as [7]
Parking lot runoffs exhibited lower concentrations than those reported for mixed stormwater from larger urban catchments in France.
“Parking lot runoffs exhibited lower concentrations than those reported for mixed stormwater from larger urban catchments in France [7,8]”
From Micropollutants in Urban Runoff from Traffic Areas: Target and Non-Target Screening on Four Contrasted Sites (2022) · cites this paper as [7]
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- Authors
- Gasperi, J., Sebastian, C., Ruban, V., Delamain, M., Percot, S., Wiest, L., Mirande, C., Caupos, E., Demare, D., Kessoo, M. D. K., Saad, M., Schwartz, J. J., Dubois, P., Fratta, C., Wolff, H., Moilleron, R., Chebbo, G., Cren, C., Millet, M., Barraud, S., & Gromaire, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (FR)
- Lyon 1 Université (FR)
- Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie, l'Environnement et la Santé (FR)
- AgroParisTech (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Ruban, V.
- Gromaire, M. C.
- Venue
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Published
- 2013-12-10
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 5267-5281
- ISSN
- 0944-1344 (ISSN-L)
- 1614-7499
- OpenAlex
- W2094084270
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 49
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- 2026: 9 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 5.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2014-03-05)
- Open access
- green
- enpc.hal.science
- Licence
- other-oa
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
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- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-09-VILL-0001)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Keywords
- urban stormwater, micropollutants, atmospheric deposition, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, bisphenol A, nonylphenol ethoxylates, octylphenol ethoxylates, pesticides, heavy metals, dissolved and particulate phases, land use, urban watersheds, source apportionment
- MeSH terms
- Bisphenol A Compounds, Atmosphere, Benzhydryl Compounds, Cities, Environmental Monitoring, France, Metals, Phenols, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Rain, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Water Pollution, Chemical
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