Detection and Evaluation of Anthropogenic Pollution on the Basis of Geochemical Study of the Interstitial Waters of Marine and Freshwater Sediments

Abstract

The chemical composition of interstitial waters from several inland seas and or water system (NPWS) exposed to anthropogenic pollution was studied. The patterns of the distribution of pollution in the Dnieper–Bug Estuary, Gelendzhik Bay of the Black Sea and in the Alexandria’s Eastern Harbor of the Mediterranean Sea were found. Most of the contamination occurs in the upper layers of bottom sediments and near mouth zones. A significant role is played by secondary contamination related to the dissolution and accumulation of metals and nutrients in the interstitial water and their migration to the water column. The estuary factor of anthropogenic pollution takes center stage according to a factor analysis for the combined impacts of potentially mobile forms of metals in the Dnieper–Bug Estuary. Studies of the Lake Pyasino pollution near Noril’sk were carried out.