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Did Arsenic Contamination in the Inagawa River Occur in Geogenic Relation to the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995?

  1. Kumiko Ogoshi1,
  2. Ippei Mori2,
  3. Kaoru Gotoh3,
  4. Kiyoshi Ogawa4

Article first published online: 4 DEC 1998

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0739(199611)10:9<757::AID-AOC548>3.0.CO;2-7

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Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Volume 10, Issue 9, pages 757–760, November 1996

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Ogoshi, K., Mori, I., Gotoh, K. and Ogawa, K. (1996), Did Arsenic Contamination in the Inagawa River Occur in Geogenic Relation to the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995?. Appl. Organometal. Chem., 10: 757–760. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0739(199611)10:9<757::AID-AOC548>3.0.CO;2-7

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Public Health, Nara Medical University, Kashihara Nara 634, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Hygeine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara Nara 634, Japan

  3. 3

    Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka 543, Japan

  4. 4

    Public Health Research Institute of Kobe City, Kobe 650, Japan

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 DEC 1998
  2. Article first published online: 4 DEC 1998
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 22 JAN 1996
  4. Manuscript Received: 5 DEC 1995

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Keywords:

  • Arsenic;
  • environmental standard;
  • river;
  • ground water;
  • earthquake

Abstract

Arsenic contamination in river and ground water was investigated in the Inagawa area of Kansai district, Japan, from August to October, 1995. Arsenic has been continually detected at a level about 2 times higher than the environmental standard in the two tributaries of the Inagawa River, i.e. the Kimo and the Shio Rivers. The arsenic contamination was probably caused by the topographical change after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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