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Environmental impacts of urban snow management--the alpine case study of Innsbruck.
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A negative impact on rivers from snow disposal seems likely to occur, although the discharged loads could only be calculated with substantial uncertainty, considering the high variability of the measured pollutant concentrations.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2007-09-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Snow & Poison control.read more
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Identification of magnetic particulates in road dust accumulated on roadside snow using magnetic, geochemical and micro-morphological analyses
Michał S. Bućko,Tadeusz Magiera,Tadeusz Magiera,Bo Johanson,Eduard Petrovský,Lauri J. Pesonen +5 more
TL;DR: Testing the applicability of snow surveying in the collection and detailed characterization of vehicle-derived magnetic particles found a decreasing trend in χ and selected trace elements was observed with increasing distance from the road edge.
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Urban snow indicates pollution originating from road traffic.
TL;DR: A broad array of contaminants in snowpacks along roads of different traffic intensities showed a similar pattern with respect to traffic intensity: pH and conductivity as well as concentrations of PAHs, total suspended solids, phosphorus and most heavy metals were higher next to high intensity roads compared to low intensity roads.
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Snow and frost: implications for spatiotemporal infiltration patterns ‐ a review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that large regions of the northern hemisphere are exposed to snowfall and seasonal frost, which has large effects on spatiotemporal distribution of infiltration and groundwater recharge processes.
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Impact of Santiago de Chile urban atmospheric pollution on anthropogenic trace elements enrichment in snow precipitation at Cerro Colorado, Central Andes
Francisco Cereceda-Balic,M.R. Palomo-Marín,E. Bernalte,Víctor Vidal,J. Christie,Ximena Fadic,Juan Luis Guevara,C. Miro,E. Pinilla Gil +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, seasonal snow precipitation in the Andes mountain range is evaluated as an environmental indicator of the composition of atmospheric emissions in Santiago de Chile metropolitan area, by measuring a set of representative trace elements in snow samples by ICP-MS.
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Do salt and low temperature impair metal treatment in stormwater bioretention cells with or without a submerged zone
TL;DR: Overall, the results confirmed that bioretention provides a functioning stormwater treatment option in areas experiencing winter conditions (road salt, low temperatures, or coastal regions (salt-laden stormwater) and validation in the field is recommended, especially focusing on dissolved metal removal.
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Assessing potential risk of heavy metal exposure from consumption of home-produced vegetables by urban populations.
Rupert Hough,Neil Breward,Scott D. Young,Neil M.J. Crout,Andrew Tye,Ann M Moir,Iain Thornton +6 more
TL;DR: The results showed that food grown on 92% of the urban area presented minimal risk to the average person subgroup, however, more vulnerable population subgroups (highly exposed person and the highly exposed infant) were subject to hazard index values greater than unity.
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Effect of deicing salts on metal and organic matter mobilization in roadside soils
TL;DR: In this paper, roadside soils were sampled from areas that receive heavy traffic and deicing salts, and they were leached in columns at 6 degrees C with solutions of NaCl, calcium magnesium acetate (CMA), or deionized water to simulate the runoff of salty water from a roadway followed by snowmelt or rainwater.
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Road salts in urban stormwater: an emerging issue in stormwater management in cold climates
TL;DR: The main concerns about the hazards of chloride-laden stormwater discharges include contamination of groundwater, leaching out of trace metals, densimetric stratification and poor vertical mixing in ponds, direct and indirect toxic effects, benthic drift and reduced biodiversity.
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Particles and associated metals in road runoff during snowmelt and rainfall
TL;DR: This study analysed road runoff in northern Sweden with respect to the concentrations of and the loads of particles in different size fractions between a snowmelt period and a rainfall period, as well as during events within each period.
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A new database on urban runoff pollution: comparison of separate and combined sewer systems.
TL;DR: The traditional separate and combined sewer systems are compared using a pollution load balance and the results show that the separate system is superior to the combined for some parameters only, such as nutrients, whereas for other parameters, e.g. heavy metals and COD, the combined system yields less total loads.