Quantifying the resuspension of sediment and associated metallic contaminants with fallout radionuclide measurements in a channelized river draining an industrial catchment

Purpose Contamination of river sediment reaches problematic levels in industrialised regions. This study investigates the relevance of using beryllium-7 (7Be), a short-lived environmental radionuclide (53 days half-life), for quantifying the deposition and resuspension of sediment and associated metallic contaminants in a heavily polluted channelized river of Northern France (The Lower Scarpe River).