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Occurrence and Species of Arsenic in the Groundwater of Ulsan Area  

Yun Uk (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Cho Byong-Wook (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Sung Kyu-Youl (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.37, no.6, 2004 , pp. 657-667 More about this Journal
Abstract
Arsenic was detected in the 29 water samples out of the 46 groundwaters located in the Ulsan metropolitan area and it's concentration ranges from $<0.1\;to\;72{\mu}g/L$. Among them the arsenic concentrations of three samples are over domestic drinking-water requirements $(50{\mu}g/L)$, and those of 10 samples are more than WHO MCLs, $10{\mu}g/L.$. High arsenic groundwater were recognized in the two region; one was near the tectonic line, especially Ulsan iron mine at Dalcheunri and the other was around Hyomundong distributed Jeongia conglomerate. It is estimated that the former is originated from pyrite oxydation type, oxygenated redox, whilst the latter is resulted from oxidation of reducted FeOOH. The species of arsenic in groundwater is in pentavalent arsenic, $H_2AsO_4^-,\;HAsO4_^{-2}$ near tectonic line, and trivalent arsenic, $H_3AsO_3$ around Hyomundong.
Keywords
Ulsan; arsenic; groundwater; WHO;
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