Physicochemical and microbiological indicators of surface water body contamination with different sources of digestate from biogas plants |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia;2. Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P.O. Box 20, North Beach, Western Australia 6920, Australia;1. Helmholtz Zentrum München — German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Neuherberg, Germany;2. Helmholtz Zentrum München — German Research Center for Environmental Health, Research Unit Environmental Genomics, Neuherberg, Germany;3. Helmholtz Zentrum München — German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Transition from fossil energy sources to biogas production has resulted in a strong increase of leakage accidents from fermenters, but knowledge on the effects of fermentation product runoff into freshwater systems is currently restricted to direct toxicity due to oxygen depletion. This study provides first information about the influence of digestate runoff on the physicochemical habitat properties and the bacterial community composition of the hyporheic interstitial which is important in determining ecosystem functioning. We exposed natural stream beds to different concentrations of two different digestates from fermenters (corn and manure feedstock), hypothesizing that the digestate addition causes acute changes of the physicochemical parameters and has distinct effects on microbial community composition of the hyporheic interstitial depending on concentration and type of digestate. In line with the hypotheses, pH value, conductivity, redox potential and ammonium differed significantly from controls and among treatments after digestate addition, but only for a maximum of two days. pH values (controls: 7.8; corn: 7.9; manure: 7.9) and conductivity (controls: 813 μS/cm; corn: 969 μS/cm; manure: 1097 μS/cm) increased, the redox potential (controls: 153 mV; corn: 145 mV; manure: 144 mV) decreased the first two days. A high peak of ammonium-N was detected in the corn and manure treatments (controls: 5 mg/l, corn: 80 mg/l; manure: 60 mg/l) at day 1. In contrast, changes in bacterial community composition were detectable for longer periods of time (>5 days). Seventeen unique T-RF fingerprints of bacterial community response to each of the different digestate treatments (11 unique T-RFs in manure and 6 unique T-RFs in corn treatments) were found, suggesting that this approach provides a suitable ecological indicator for source tracking, e.g. in case of a biogas power plant leakage accident. |
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| Keywords: | Biogas Bacterial communities Indicators TRFs Hyporheic interstitial Digestate |
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