Ecological, Groundwater, and Human Health Risk Assessment in a Mining Region of Nicaragua

Francisco Picado, Alfredo Mendoza, Steven Cuadra, Gerhard Barmen, Kristina Jakobsson, Göran Bengtsson

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Macroinvertebrates and fish in the contaminated river are faced with a higher risk to suffer from exposure to Hg than humans eating contaminated fish and bacteria living in the groundwater. The river sediment is the most hazardous source for the macroinvertebrates, and macroinvertebrates make up the highest risk for fish. The distribution of body concentrations of Hg in fish in the mining areas of the basin may exceed the distribution of endpoint values with close to 100% probability. Similarly, the Hg concentration in cord blood of humans feeding on fish from the river was predicted to exceed the BMDLs(0.1) with about 10% probability. Most of the risk to the groundwater quality is confined to the vicinity of the gold refining plants and along the river, with a probability of about 20% to exceed the guideline value.
Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)916-933
TidskriftRisk Analysis: an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
Volym30
Nummer6
DOI
StatusPublished - 2010

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin

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