Digging up the dirty past: evidence for stormwater's contribution to pollution of an urban floodplain lake

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The authors thank Richard Williamson, Dr Christy Briles, Peter Kolotelo, Anthony Brosinsky, Nicholas Walsh, Jonathan Tyler, Dr Ursula Pietrzak and Shaohua Yu for their assistance with field and laboratory work. Peter Bach assisted in producing Fig. 1. Dr Edoardo Daly and Dr Gavan Lintern provided advice on the manuscript. This research has been supported by the 2013 Monash University Faculty of Engineering Seed Funding Scheme. The Monash-ANSTO collaboration fund enabled access to the micro-XRF ITRAX core scanner, and Professor Henk Heijnis and Ms Patricia Gadd provided invaluable expertise and assistance in this data collection. The authors also thank two anonymous reviewers for valuable recommendations in the revision of the manuscript.