US EPA

1486852 

Journal Article 

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in seawater around England and Wales 

Law, RJ; Dawes, VJ; Woodhead, RJ; Matthiessen, P 

1997 

1 

Marine Pollution Bulletin
ISSN: 0025-326X
EISSN: 1879-3363 

BIOSIS/97/20252 

34 

5 

306-322 

eng 

BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. Surface seawater samples collected during the period 1993-1995 from 177 stations around England and Wales have been analysed for 15 individual parent PAH compounds, using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection. The sampling sites included 50 of the stations designated under the UK National Monitoring Programme, and comprised estuarine, coastal and offshore locations. PAH concentrations at offshore sites were generally low or undetectable. Higher concentrations were found in many coastal and estuarine samples, with SIGMAPAH concentrations ranging from none detected to 10.7 mug l-1, almost three orders of magnitude greater than the highest concentration recorded for offshore waters. Particularly high concentrations of 2- and 3-ring PAH were detected close to a steel manufacturing plant on the River Tees (N-E England), predominantly in the dissolved phase. Only at this one site were the PAH concentrations sufficiently high to pose a risk of imme 

Ecology; Ecology; Biochemical Studies-General; Public Health: Environmental Health-Air