Trace Metal Pollution from a Municipal Waste Disposal Site at Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Haertling, Joachim W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1989
• Subjects: Environmental impacts; Heavy metals; Marine pollution; Sediments (Geology); Sewage disposal; Toxicity; Trace elements; Water; Water pollution; Water quality; Pangnirtung Fiord; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; Baffin Island; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Baffin; Terre de Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64694

Water and sediment samples collected from a municipal waste disposal site near the Hamlet of Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, were analyzed for classical parameters and trace metals (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn). Although all trace metal concentrations showed a considerable increase below the dump, only Pb and...