Pollution of a Tropical Lagoon by the Determination of Organochlorine Coumpounds

Abstract

The lagoon system of Ivory Coast with 1,200 km2 of area is one among the important in West Africa. In the context of national quality water assessment, study of chemicals has been carried out in the central basin and its surroundings. The samples taken in different stations have been extracted with hexane and purified on column of florisil deactivated at 5% at chemical treatment. The analysis by CPG/ECD has permitted to identify the organochlorine compound wastes such as the Lindan, Heptachlor, Dieldrin, Endrin, the metabolites of DDT (PP'DDD and PP'DDE) and PCBs. The PCA method showed the highest stations of contamination located to Abidjan, the main industrial and urban zones (PCB: 15-227 ng/g and DDT + DDD + DDE: 1.7-130 ng/g) .

Keywords

• Lagoon
• Oysters
• Pollution
• Oganochlorine
• PCA
• Ivory Coast