Heavy Metal Emission Characteristics of Urban Road Runoff

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v2i1.1711

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Pavement runoff sampling points were set up on the main roads of Chengdu city. Six rainfall-runoff events from July to September in 2017 were sampled by synchronous observation of rainfall, runoff and pollution. The concentration changes of copper, lead, zinc, chromium and cadmium in the runoff process were monitored, and the pollution emission regularity and initial scouring effect were studied. The results show that the emission regularity of pavement runoff pollution is closely related to rainfall characteristics and pollutant occurrence, and the concentration of dissolved heavy metals reaches its peak at the initial stage of runoff. The peak time of particulate heavy metal concentration lagged slightly behind that of rainfall intensity. There is a big difference between the strength of initial scouring degree and dissolved heavy metals the stronger the initial scouring degree of total heavy metals, the weaker the dissolved heavy metals. Reducing pavement runoff in the early stage of rainfall is an effective means to control heavy metal pollution.

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