caa a22 4500 467901902 CHVBK 20180406152820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-006-9204-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-006-9204-y Arsenic and Other Metal Contamination of Groundwaters in the Industrial Area of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece [Elektronische Daten] [Ioannis Katsoyiannis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis] In groundwater, used for drinking water supply in the greater industrial area of Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece, concentrations of total arsenic exceeded the WHO provisional guideline value and the EU maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 μg/L. The concentration of total arsenic was in the range between 4-130 μg/L, whereas the median value was 36 μg/L and the average concentration 46 μg/L. Nine out of the eleven wells contained total arsenic at concentration higher than 10 μg/L and it should be stressed that 6 of them contain arsenic at concentrations between 10 (new MCL) and 50 μg/L (previous MCL). The examined groundwaters were found to contain elevated concentrations of manganese and phosphate. Arsenic had a positive correlation with the pH, indicating the possible effect of pH on arsenic mobilisation. These findings emerge the problem of contamination from arsenic, since, according to the EU directive 98/83, all drinking water sources within the European Union should have achieved compliance with the new limits by 12/2003, implying that the situation requires urgent remedial action. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Northern Greece nationallicence arsenic nationallicence groundwater contamination nationallicence heavy metals nationallicence EU directive 98/83 nationallicence Katsoyiannis Ioannis Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Research Site Marienfelde, Schichauweg 58, 12307, Berlin, Germany aut Katsoyiannis Athanasios Department of Chemistry, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Gr-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 123/1-3(2006-12-01), 393-406 0167-6369 123:1-3<393 2006 123 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-9204-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-9204-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Katsoyiannis Ioannis Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Research Site Marienfelde, Schichauweg 58, 12307, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Katsoyiannis Athanasios Department of Chemistry, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Gr-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 123/1-3(2006-12-01), 393-406 0167-6369 123:1-3<393 2006 123 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer