Lead budget for the German Bight

A lead budget is set up for the German Bight, based on measurements of the TUVAS project between November 1989 and March 1992. The budget includes 1. the lead inventories in the sediment of the German Bight proper and of the German Wadden Sea that are in the water body, and in organisms, and 2. the lead fluxes from rivers, from the atmosphere, into and from the sediment and through the seaward boundaries of the budget area. The fluxes include both lead on suspended particulate matter (SPM) and dissolved lead. The lead fluxes through the seaward boundaries exceed all other fluxes by an order of magnitude. Because of the leadʹs affinity to SPM and fine sediment, the sediment of the German Bight is an effective storage reservoir for anthropogenic lead.