Uncertainties in historical pollution data from sedimentary records from an Australian urban floodplain lake

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The authors would like to thank Richard Williamson, Dr Christy Briles, Peter Kolotelo, Anthony Brosinsky, Nicholas Walsh, Jonathan Tyler, Dr Ursula Pietrzak, Dr Simon Connor and Shaohua Yu for their assistance with field and laboratory work. Dr Peter Bach assisted in the creation of Fig. 2. Lachlan Johnson of Manningham City Council and Brad Curtis and Peter Tucker of Boroondara City Council provided access to the field sites. Dusan Jovanovic, Peter Kolotelo and Jeddah Breman provided invaluable assistance in the development of the mass balance model. The authors acknowledge that valuable advice was given by Professor Peter Steen Mikkelsen and Professor Stuart Pearson during the development of this work. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their useful feedback. This research has been supported by the 2013 Monash University Faculty of Engineering Seed Funding Scheme, the Monash-ANSTO collaboration fund and an AINSE Post Graduate Research Award.