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Mercury in Waters, Soils, and Sediments of the New Jersey Coastal Plain: A Compari-son of Regional Distribution and Mobility with the Mercury Contamin
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Mercury in Waters, Soils, and Sediments of the New Jersey Coastal Plain: A Compari-son of Regional Distribution and Mobility with the Mercury Contamin - U. S. Department of the Interior
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Synopsis "Mercury in Waters, Soils, and Sediments of the New Jersey Coastal Plain: A Compari-son of Regional Distribution and Mobility with the Mercury Contamin"
Mercury in soils, surface water, and groundwater at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic County, New Jersey, has been found at levels that exceed established background concentrations in Coastal Plain waters, and, in some cases, New Jersey State standards for mercury in various media. As of 2012, it is not known whether this mercury is part of regional mercury contamination or whether it is related to former military activities. Regionally, groundwater sup-plying about 700 domestic wells in the New Jersey Coastal Plain is contaminated with mercury that appears to be derived from anthropogenic inputs, such as agricultural pesticide use and atmospheric deposition. High levels of mercury occasion-ally are found in Coastal Plain soils, but disturbance during residential development on former agricultural land is thought to have mobilized any mercury applied during farming, a hypothesis borne out by experiments leaching mercury from soils. In the unsewered residential areas with mercury-contam-inated groundwater, septic-system effluent is believed to create reducing conditions in which mercury sorbed to subsoils is mobilized to groundwater.
