Water quality assessment in the “German River of the years 2014/2015”: how a case study on the impact of a storm water sedimentation basin displayed impairment of fish health in the Argen River (Southern Germany)

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Table 3 Measured concentrations (in µg/kg, dry weight) of PAHs, PCBs, PBDEs, polycyclic musk compounds, and DDE in fish tissues (pooled fish samples) and sediment samples from the Argen River

Species/sediment	Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)		Barbel (Barbus barbus)		Loach (Barbatula barbatula)		Loach and bullhead (B. barbatula; C. gobio)		Sediment		EQS in biota [µg/kg] wet weight
Sampling site/compound	U1	D1	U3	D3	U4	D4	U5	D5	U5	D5	EQS in biota [µg/kg] wet weight
Naphthalene	26.99*	6.26	17.43*	8.97	25.16*	31.78*	10.25	52.70*	2.80	4.30	5
Fluorene	5.10	2.61	2.94	2.25	1.97	2.82	1.28	1.42	2.50	2.40	5
Phenanthrene	16.14	8.75	17.94	12.85	15.37	17.34	12.10	6.94	21.00	28.20	5
Fluoranthene	5.70	3.61	6.14	5.28	5.95	7.84	6.85	5.45	35.40	45.80	30
Pyrene	5.22	3.62	5.56	3.97	5.38	6.97	6.42	4.98	32.10	39.70	5
HHCB	19.14	7.86	25.71	16.74	18.99	13.5	12.9	5.78	4.90	3.70	–
AHTN	6.57	3.96	9.75	8.34	12.43	6.42	6.80	2.38	3.40	2.80	–
DDE	4.30	3.18	3.75	4.14	4.11	3.66	4.83	3.82	0.90	0.80	–
PCB-28	2.33	2.66	1.71	1.59	2.20	1.10	0.90	1.90	0.52	0.61	–
PCB-52	1.53	1.61	0.95	1.31	0.90	1.20	1.10	0.80	0.33	0.28	–
PCB-101	0.90	1.58	0.72	0.45	2.30	2.80	2.40	1.30	0.45	0.51	–
PCB-118	0.90	1.58	0.72	0.45	0.60	0.90	0.50	0.40	0.23	0.22	–
PCB-138	3.99	2.70	3.58	3.21	3.70	4.90	3.50	3.10	0.71	0.62	–
PCB-153	4.49	3.10	3.80	3.55	4.30	5.20	3.70	3.20	0.75	0.68	–
PCB-180	1.09	1.00	0.90	0.78	1.10	1.00	1.20	0.80	0.52	0.56	–
Sum PBDE	1.45*	1.64*	2.37*	1.47*	1.59*	1.55*	4.62*	1.33*	0.69	0.78	0.0085
MTCS	1.24	0.21	1.15	0.64	0.98	1.14	1.51	0.97	1.40	0.90	–

Values marked with an asterisk (*) indicate concentrations that exceeded the environmental quality standards (EQS) of the European Parliament [26]