journalArticle Water 14 3 DOI 10.3390/w14030394 Gasperi Johnny Le Roux Julien Deshayes Steven Ayrault Sophie Bordier Louise Boudahmane Lila Budzinski Hélène Caupos Emilie Caubrière Nadège Flanagan Kelsey Guillon Martin Huynh Nina Labadie Pierre Meffray Laurent Neveu Pascale Partibane Chandirane Paupardin Julien Saad Mohamed Varnede Lucie Gromaire Marie-Christine micropollutants non-target screening road runoff stormwater target screening Micropollutants in Urban Runoff from Traffic Areas: Target and Non-Target Screening on Four Contrasted Sites Although runoff from trafficked urban areas is recognized as a potentially significant pathway of micropollutants, runoff pollution remains poorly documented, except for relatively few historical pollutants such as some metals and hydrocarbons. Therefore, in this work, road and parking lot runoff from four sites with contrasting traffic levels were analyzed for a very broad spectrum of molecules and elements. A total of 128 pollutants and micropollutants were monitored, including inorganic (n = 41) and organic (n = 87) pollutants. Both the dissolved and particulate phases were considered. For a reduced number of samples, non-targeted screening by high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) was carried out. For targeted screening, the contamination profiles were quite homogeneous, but the concentrations significantly differed between the different sites. Sites with the highest traffic density exhibited the highest concentrations for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), some traffic-related metals, alkylphenols and phthalates. Overall, for most micropollutants, the parking lot runoff exhibited the lowest concentrations, and the specificity of this site was confirmed by its HRMS fingerprint. Non-target screening allowed the sites to be discriminated based on the occurrence of specific compounds. Unlike the results of targeted screening, the HRMS intra-site variability was lower than its inter-site variability. Unknown substances were tentatively identified, either characteristic of each site or ubiquitous of all samples. 394 2022/1 en Micropollutants in Urban Runoff from Traffic Areas https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/3/394 2022-01-31 08:22:32 www.mdpi.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Number: 3 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute