Speciation and mobility of heavy metals in mud in coastal reclamation areas in Shenzhen,China |
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| Authors: | Jianmin Huang Runqiu Huang Jiu J Jiao Kouping Chen |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Environment and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China;(2) Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;(3) College of Chemistry, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China |
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| Abstract: | Coastal reclamation has been carried out along the coastal areas near Shenzhen, China in a large scale since 1980s by dumping
fill materials over the marine mud at the sea bottom. Usually the area to be reclaimed is drained first and some of the mud
is air-dried for a few weeks before it is buried by fill. After reclamation, the terrestrial groundwater, which is relatively
acidic and with high dissolved oxygen, gradually displaces the seawater, which is alkaline with high salinity. The changes
in the burial conditions of mud and the properties of the pore water in the mud may induce the release of some heavy metals
into the mud. Field survey confirms that the pH and salinity of the groundwater in the reclamation site are much lower than
the seawater. Chemical analyses of mud and groundwater samples collected from the reclamation sites reclaimed in different
years indicate that most of the heavy metals in the mud decrease gradually with time, but the heavy metals in the groundwater
are increased. The release of heavy metals into pore water due to reactivation of heavy metals in the mud is of environmental
concern. To understand why some of the heavy metals can be released from the mud more easily than others, a sequential extraction
method was used to study the operationally determined chemical forms of five heavy metals (Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, and Cd) in the
mud samples. Heavy metals can be presented in five chemical forms: exchangeable, carbonate, Fe–Mn oxide, organic, and residual.
Ni and Pb were mainly associated with the Fe–Mn oxide fraction and carbonate fraction; Zn was mainly associated with organic
fraction and Fe–Mn oxide fraction, while Cu and Cd were associated with organic fraction and carbonate fraction, respectively.
If the residual fraction can be considered as an inert phase of the metal that cannot be mobilized, it is the other four forms
of heavy metal that cause the noticeable changes in the concentration of heavy metals in the mud. On the basis of the speciation
of heavy metals, the mobility of metals have the following order: Pb (36.63%) > Cu (31.11%) > Zn (20.49%) > Ni (18.37%) > Cd
(13.46%). The measured metal mobility fits reasonably well with the degree of concentration reduction of the metals with time
of burial observed in the reclamation site. |
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| Keywords: | Land reclamation Mud Heavy metals Speciation Sequential extraction Mobility |
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