Use of pre-industrial floodplain lake sediments to establish baseline river metal concentrations downstream of Alberta oil sands: a new approach for detecting pollution of rivers

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Johan A Wiklund, Roland I Hall, Brent B Wolfe, Thomas WD Edwards, Andrea J Farwell, D George Dixon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2014
• Subjects: Alberta oil sands; river sediment quality monitoring; metal pollution; reference conditions; lake sediments; Peace-Athabasca Delta; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Athabasca River; The Ramp
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124019; https://doaj.org/article/e86d919101264a4eb6d6c34ac1ffbe1f

In the Alberta oil sands region, insufficient knowledge of pre-disturbance reference conditions has undermined the ability of the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) to detect pollution of the Athabasca River, because sampling began three decades after the industry started and the river natu...