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Sources of Methylmercury to Snowpacks of the Alberta Oil Sands Region: A Study of In Situ Methylation and Particulates.
Environmental Science & Technology 2018 January 17
Snowpacks in the Alberta Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of Canada contain elevated loadings of methylmercury (MeHg; a neurotoxin that biomagnifies through foodwebs) due to oil sands related activities. At sites ranging from 0 to 134 km from the major AOSR upgrading facilities, we examined sources of MeHg by quantifying potential rates of MeHg production in snowpacks and melted snow using mercury stable isotope tracer experiments, as well as quantifying concentrations of MeHg on particles in snowpacks (pMeHg). At four sites, methylation rate constants were low in snowpacks (km = 0.001-0.004 d-1 ) and nondetectable in melted snow, except at one site (km = 0.0007 d-1 ). The ratio of methylation to demethylation varied between 0.3 and 1.5, suggesting that the two processes are in balance and that in situ production is unlikely an important net source of MeHg to AOSR snowpacks. pMeHg concentrations increased linearly with distance from the upgraders (R2 = 0.71, p < 0.0001); however, snowpack total particle and pMeHg loadings decreased exponentially over this same distance (R2 = 0.49, p = 0.0002; R2 = 0.56, p < 0.0001). Thus, at near-field sites, total MeHg loadings in snowpacks were high due to high particle loadings, even though particles originating from industrial activities were not MeHg rich compared to those at remote sites. More research is required to identify the industrial sources of snowpack particles in the AOSR.
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