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ABSTRACT
Surface sediment samples from five different sites were collected in Donghu Lake, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China during November 2000. Over 180 organic chemicals were detected using GC-MS controlled by a Hewlett Packard Chemstation after soxhlet extraction. Derivatives of benzene, phthalate esters, PAHs, phenols, isophorone as priority pollutants or endocrine disruptors, respectively, were detected. The concentration of organic pollutants were found to be highest at the sampling site located at Southwest Donghu Lake (Shuiguo), caused most probably by the untreated wastewater discharge, average at the southern and lowest at the northern part of the lake.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20037010) and by the open fund of State Key Laboratory for Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The authors would like to thank Dr. Ayfer Yediler from National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany (GSF) for reviewing and for her constructive comments.