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Sediment and pollutant distribution along the Negro River: Patagonia, Argentina
- Source :
- International Journal of River Basin Management. 8:319-330
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- The Negro River extends from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean supplying water to several cities and to the most important fruit-bearing productive region of Patagonia. Floodplains from the Upper Valley are artificially irrigated with water delivered from the main channel. Pesticides are increasingly used without strict government control. Dams constructed at the tributary rivers retain sediment and therefore the clean water delivered becomes free of sediment and therefore is able to erode certain levees during high-discharge events. Bedload–transport fraction (sand dunes) increases at the Upper Valley and is fixed at the levees of the Lower Valley by riparian vegetation. This riparian vegetation is dominated by Salix humboldtiana and Schoenoplectus californicus while Spartina sp is abundant at the estuarine marsh area. Organochlorine compounds (OCCs) were measured by GC-ECD including dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), dichlorophenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) and dichloro-dyphenyl-dichloroethane (DDD) en...
Details
- ISSN :
- 18142060 and 15715124
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of River Basin Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2416aa595f3544fdeffd5e4ae0f15ce0