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Environ Sci Technol

Title:		Application of the multimedia urban model to compare the fate of SOCs in an urban and forested watershed
Author(s):		Priemer DA; Diamond ML;
Address:		"Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
Journal Title:		Environ Sci Technol
Year:		2002
Volume:		36
Issue:		5
Page Number:		1004 - 1013
DOI:		10.1021/es001397+
ISSN/ISBN:		0013-936X (Print) 0013-936X (Linking)
Abstract:		"A multimedia model has been developed to estimate the dynamics of semivolatile organic compounds (SOCs) in urban areas. The model is based on a Level III fugacity model of Mackay and consists of six compartments: air, surface water, sediment, soil, vegetation, and an organic film that coats impervious surfaces. The model was used to illustrate the effect of impervious surfaces in urban areas by parametrization for downtown, Toronto, Canada, and modification of the same area to simulate forested conditions. With illustrative emissions of PCB homologues to air, the model indicates that most chemicals are lost by advection, with the remainder undergoing air-to-surface (organic film or vegetation) transfer. Under urban conditions chemicals with Log[K(OA)] < 7.5 volatilize from the film into air where they are susceptible to advection and photolytic degradation. Chemicals with Log[K(OA)] > 7.5 are washed off the film to surface waters where they may undergo volatilization, advection, sedimentation, and degradation. Both loss mechanisms from the film increase the overall mobility of SOCs in the urban relative to the forested environment. In forested areas, vegetation more efficiently accumulates gas- and particle-phase SOCs and subsequently transfers them to surface soils, the greatest chemical reservoir, where they are relatively immobile"
Keywords:		"Cities Geologic Sediments/chemistry *Models, Chemical *Multimedia Organic Chemicals/*analysis Photochemistry Solubility *Trees Volatilization *Water Movements Water Pollutants/*analysis;"
Notes:		"MedlinePriemer, David A Diamond, Miriam L eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2002/03/29 Environ Sci Technol. 2002 Mar 1; 36(5):1004-13. doi: 10.1021/es001397+"