LEAD BUDGET FOR THE GERMAN BIGHT

A lead budget is set up for the German Eight, based on measurements of the TUVAS project between November 1989 and March 1992. The budget in cludes 1. the lead inventories in the sediment of the German Eight pro per and of the German Wadden Sea that are in the water body, and in or ganisms, and 2. the lead fluxes from rivers, from the atmosphere, into and from the sediment and through the seaward boundaries of the budge t area, The fluxes include both lead on suspended particulate matter ( SPM) and dissolved lead, The lead fluxes through the seaward boundarie s exceed all other fluxes by an order of magnitude. Because of the lea d's affinity to SPM and fine sediment, the sediment of the German Eigh t is an effective storage reservoir for anthropogenic lead. (C) 1997 E lsevier Science Ltd.