Temperature dependence and coupling of iron and arsenic reduction and release during flooding of a contaminated soil.

Arsenic (As) in soils and sediments is commonly mobilized when anoxic conditions promote microbial iron (Fe) and As reduction. Recent laboratory studies and field observations have suggested a decoupling between Fe and As reduction and release, but the links between these processes are still not well understood. In microcosm experiments, we monitored the formation of Fe(II) and As(III) in the porewater and in the soil solid-phase during flooding of a contaminated floodplain soil at temperatures of 23, 14, and 5 degrees C. At all temperatures, flooding induced the development of anoxic conditions and caused increasing concentrations of dissolved Fe(II) and As(III). Decreasing the temperature from 23 to 14 and 5 degrees C strongly slowed down soil reduction and Fe and As release. Speciation of As in the soil solid-phase by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and extraction of the Fe(II) that has formed by reductive Fe(III) (hydr)oxide dissolution revealed that less than 3.9% of all As(III) and less than 3.2% of all Fe(II) formed during 52 days of flooding at 23 degrees C were released into the porewater, although 91% of the initially ascorbate-extractable Fe and 66% of the total As were reduced. The amount of total As(III) formed during soil reduction was linearly correlated to the amount of total Fe(II) formed, indicating that the rate of As(V) reduction was controlled by the rate of microbial Fe(III) (hydr)oxide reduction.

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