Ling, Nicholas2024-07-192024-07-192017Ling, N. (2017). Alum dosing at Waitangi Soda Springs – bioavailability of aluminium in 2016 (ERI Report No. 103).https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16687Continuous alum dosing of the Waitangi Soda Springs at Lake Rotoehu commenced in 2010 to reduce inflows of dissolved reactive phosphorus to Lake Rotoehu. Analyses of bioaccumulation in the tissues of kōura and goldfish from Lake Rotoehu were undertaken on animals collected in November 2016 for comparison with data from previous years and control locations to determine the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of aluminium to satisfy annual resource consent conditions 11.7 and 11.8 of resource consent 65966. Lake Rotoehu goldfish showed slightly elevated aluminium concentrations in the gills indicating enhanced exposure to aluminium as a result of alum discharge from the Waitangi Soda Springs but no evidence of significant bioaccumulation in internal tissues.Report