Solid Waste Disposal on Guam: Impact of an Unsanitary Landfill on Heavy Metal Status of Adjacent Aquatic Community Representatives
Guams only civilian landfill is located in the Lonfit River valley in the central part of the island. The landfill is unlined and continually discharges leachate into the adjacent watershed. The leachate is heavy metal enriched and its impact on the edible quality of aquatic resources in the area has been of long-standing concern to local residents. However, chemical analysis of abiotic and biotic components within the watershed failed to find any evidence of metal enrichment. Rather the data suggested that climatic and topographic conditions continually conspire to produce natural cleansing processes that prevent metal accumulation in the area.
solid waste disposal Guam heavy metal
Gary R.W. DENTON Morten C. OLSEN Yuming WEN
Water and Environmental Research Institute, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam 96923, USA
国际会议
2007环境科学与技术国际会议(The 2007 International Symposium on Environmental Science and Technology)
北京
英文
2007-11-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）