The bioaccumulation of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (D3 to D6) as well as linear siloxanes (L3 to L5) was studied in a food web in the St. Lawrence River downstream of the effluent of the municipal wastewater treatment plant in Montreal, Canada. For most species, differences in δN in fish and prey showed a clear separation of individual fish feeding in food webs influenced by the wastewater plume from those feeding outside the plume. Cyclic siloxanes were detected in all biotic samples from the individuals identified as feeding in the effluent plume. Siloxane D5 accounted for more than 80% of the total siloxanes. Linear siloxane L5 was also abundant in walleye and gull eggs. Total siloxane concentrations in suspended sediments were 17.3 times higher than in surface sediments in the region of the river in the effluent plume. Caged freshwater mussels (Elliptio sp.), placed in the effluent plume, bioaccumulated 43 times more total siloxanes than PBDEs in 30 days, demonstrating how readily siloxanes are taken up in biota and what a significant component of the contaminant body burden they can account for. The sediment-biota accumulation factors (BSAF) for total siloxanes (∑ D3 to D6 and L3 to L5) showed values of 65.4, 27.8, 9.9 and 6.4 for walleye, northern pike, yellow perch and round goby respectively.
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