What are some causes and effects of sediment pollution?
1 Answer
Heavy metals, organic pollutants, etc. are causes of sediment pollution.
Explanation:
Lots of causes can be given as precursors of sediment contamination. Heavy metals, synthetic chemicals, and others are examples of sediment contamination.
Sediments cause water pollution if they are polluted. Some chemicals have low solubility in water but they might be accumulated in sediment. Under flood conditions, such chemicals cause water pollution since sediment is contaminated. For example, we examined water quality of rain and water quality in spring waters in Çanakkale, Turkey. We found out that rainwater is pretty clean (TDS (total dissolved solids) is under 100 ppm) but spring water quality (under dry weather conditions) is problematic (TDS is over 600 ppm (in many samples)).
Sediments, if they are contaminated, cause pollution.
