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Screening risk assessment tools for assessing the environmental impact in an abandoned pyritic mine in Spain

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2011

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Moreno-Jiménez, E., García-Gómez, C., Oropesa, A.L., Esteban, E., Haro, A., Carpena-Ruiz, R., Tarazona, J.V., Peñalosa, J.M., and Fernández, M.D., 2011, Screening risk assessment tools for assessing the environmental impact in an abandoned pyritic mine in Spain: Science of The Total Environment, v. 409, iss. 4, p. 692-703.

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This paper describes a new methodology for assessing site-specific environmental impact of contaminants. The proposed method integrates traditional risk assessment approaches with real and variable environmental characteristics at a local scale. Environmental impact on selected receptors was classified for each environmental compartment into 5 categories derived from the whole (chronic and acute) risk assessment using 8 risk levels. Risk levels were established according to three hazard quotients (HQs) which represented the ratio of exposure to acute and chronic toxicity values. This tool allowed integrating in only one impact category all the elements involved in the standard risk assessment. The methodology was applied to an abandoned [...]

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