Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Identify Organic Contaminants Linked to Urban Stormwater Mortality Syndrome in Coho Salmon

570 Urbanization DOI:10.1021/acs.est.8b03287 Oncorhynchus kisutch 01 natural sciences Mass Spectrometry 6. Clean water 13. Climate action North America 11. Sustainability Animals Water Pollutants, Chemical 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03287 Publication Date: 2018-09-07T13:18:20Z
ABSTRACT
Urban stormwater is a major threat to ecological health, causing range of adverse, mostly sublethal effects. In western North America, urban runoff acutely lethal adult coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch) that spawn each fall in freshwater creeks. Although the mortality syndrome correlated urbanization and attributed road contaminant(s), causal agent(s) remain unknown. We applied high-resolution mass spectrometry isolate chemical signature: list nontarget identified features co-occurred waters spawners (road from controlled exposures receiving two field observations symptomatic coho). Hierarchical cluster analysis indicated tire wear particle (TWP) leachates were most chemically similar with observed toxicity, relative other vehicle-derived sources. Prominent contaminants signature included groups nitrogen-containing compounds derived TWP, polyethylene glycols, octylphenol ethoxylates, polypropylene glycols. A (methoxymethyl)melamine compound family, previously unreported was detected creeks at concentrations up ∼9 ∼0.3 μg/L, respectively. The results indicate TWPs are an under-appreciated contaminant source watersheds should be prioritized for fate toxicity assessment.
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