Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, Spain
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Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, SpainAuthor (s)
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2016Publisher
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0048-9697; 1879-1026Type
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Abstract
The solid-waste treatment plant of RECIPLASA is located in the municipality of Onda
(Castellón province), which is an important agricultural area of Spain, with
predominance of citrus crops. In this plant, all urban ... [+]
The solid-waste treatment plant of RECIPLASA is located in the municipality of Onda
(Castellón province), which is an important agricultural area of Spain, with
predominance of citrus crops. In this plant, all urban solid wastes from the town of
Castellón (around 200.000 inhabitants) and other smaller towns as Almassora,
Benicàssim, Betxí, Borriana, L’Alcora, Onda and Vila-Real are treated. In order to
evaluate the potential impact of this plant on the surrounding water, both surface and
groundwater, a comprehensive monitoring of organic pollutants has been carried out
along 2011, 2012 and 2013. To this aim, an advanced analytical strategy was applied for
wide-scope screening, consisting on the complementary use of liquid chromatography
(LC) and gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) with
quadrupole (Q)-time of flight analyser (TOF). A generic solid-phase extraction with
Oasis HLB cartridges was applied prior to the chromatographic analysis. The screening
included more than 1,500 organic pollutants as target compounds, such as pesticides,
pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, drugs of abuse, UV-filters, polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDEs), among others. Pesticides, mainly herbicides, were the compounds more
frequently detected. Other compounds as antioxidants, cosmetics, drugs of abuse,
PAHs, pharmaceuticals and UV filters, were also identified in the screening though at
much lower frequency.
Once the screening was made, quantitative analysis focused on the compounds more
frequently detected was subsequently applied using LC coupled to tandem MS with
triple quadrupole analyzer. In this way, up to 24 pesticides and transformation products
(TPs), 7 pharmaceuticals, one drug of abuse and its metabolite could be quantified at
sub-ppb concentrations. Along the three years of study, ten compounds were found at
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concentrations higher than 0.1 g/L. Most of them were pesticides and TPs, a fact that
illustrates that the main source of pollution seems to be the agricultural activities in this
area. [-]
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