This letter is a response to the comment submitted to chemosphere by Melleton et al. on our paper (Delplace et al., 2022), entitled "pedo-geochemical background and sediment contamination of metal(loid)s in the old mining-district of Salsigne (Orbiel valley, France)" by Gauthier Delplace, Jérôme Viers, Eva Schreck, Priscia Oliva and Philippe Behra (2022), published online in Chemosphere in September 2021
Chemosphere. 2022 Nov;307(Pt 2):135766.
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135766.
Epub 2022 Aug 2.