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Hydrobiologia 235/236 : 533-544, 1992. B. T. Hart P. G. Sly (eds), Sediment/Water Interactions . 533 © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers . Printed in Belgium . Arsenic transport between water and sediments Jack Cornett, Lorna Chant Bert Risto Environmental Research Branch, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario KOJ IJO Key words: arsenic, sediments, distribution coefficient Abstract Arsenic discharged into the Moira River has accumulated in the sediments of Moira Lake during the past century . The chronology of arsenic concentrations in the sediments, established using Pb-210 dating, has a subsurface concentration maximum ( 1000 tg g - ) that reflects higher inputs to the lake 15 to 45 years ago . The distribution coefficient (K d ) of arsenic in the surficial sediments was low (4000- 6000 L kg - ) and decreased below the sediment water interface . Higher concentrations of exchangeable As also were extracted deeper in the sediments . As a result, arsenic is mobile in the sediment column and the flux of arsenic via diffusion and particle resuspension from the sediments into the water is greater than current external loading from the Moira River . Less than 20% s of the external input of arsenic is buried in the lake sediments . Using these flux measurements and a one dimensional model of arsenic transport in the sediment column, we constructed the history of arsenic exchange between water and sediments throughout the past century . The simulations predict that arsenic input into the water from