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Several rivers around the Baltic Sea coast have poor water quality status due to occasional low pH and high metal concentrations. One potential cause of low pH is intensive drainage of shallow peat soils (<80cm thick peat layer) overlying sulphide-rich sediments. This results in oxidation of iron sulphides to sulphuric acid, lowering water pH dramatically, and increases the concentrations of soluble...