Ecological and Health Risk Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Taihu Lake Basin

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10.2991/rac-16.2016.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Taihu Lake Basin; Polycuyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; ecological risk assessment; health risk assessment

Abstract

With the rapid development of agriculture and industry in Taihu Lake Basin, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have become the focus of research. The paper performed ecological and health risk assessment for PAHs in Taihu Lake Basin. Based on the measured data from the centralized source of drinking water in Taihu Lake Basin and historical data from other regions, the paper analyzed the characteristics. The ecological risks of PAHs were assessed according to the environmental quality standards in sediment of USEPA, and the health risks were assessed with the exposure assessment method of USEPA. The results showed that PAHs in Taihu Lake Basin were in low ecological and health risk. The water quality from Taihu centralized drinking water source was good and in low ecological and health risk.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jieyu Zhu
AU  - Dong Wang
AU  - Yuankun Wang
AU  - Lachun Wang
AU  - Wei Huang
AU  - Debiao Zeng
AU  - Lili Jiang
AU  - Dengfeng Liu
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Ecological and Health Risk Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Taihu Lake Basin
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 470
EP  - 474
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rac-16.2016.76
DO  - 10.2991/rac-16.2016.76
ID  - Zhu2016/11
ER  -