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Heavy Metal Pollution in the Agricultural Soils Alongside Highway 080 of Igdir Province
Abstract
Natural soils have been polluted by variety of human activity such as urbanization, industrialization and excessive fertilizer and pesticide usage. However, the agricultural soils alongside the highways, especially those of international ones, are relatively at higher risk of heavy metal pollution depending on the intensive track traffic. Therefore, total of 72 soil samples from the 24 sampling sites were taken at 5 km interval to elucidate the vehicle-induced heavy metal pollution on the international highway 080 in Igdir, Turkey. After characterising the soil samples, their total and DTPA extractable or plant available concentrations were determined. The results showed that the concentrations of total and available heavy metals were highly dependent on the distances from the highway. In general, the closer distance to highway resulted in higher element concentrations. Iron and zinc were the most affected elements (p>0.01), and followed by nickel (p<0.05), and manganese and copper (close to p= 0.05). The zone from 0 to 10 m away from the highway was the most polluted area. Pollution indices (PI) were in descending order as Ni>Cu>Zn>Fe>Mn for the total concentrations and Cu>Zn>Mn>Fe>Ni for the available fractions. The pollution load indices (PLI) were generally higher than the pollution indices (PI) of total micronutrients except nickel (Ni) values, and were generally lower than the pollution indices (PI) of available ones. It can be concluded that Ni and Cu were likely to reach environmentally risky levels in relatively shorter time.
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Destekleyen Kurum
Iğdır Üniversitesi, BAP Koordinasyon Birimi
Proje Numarası
2017-FBE-L16
Teşekkür
This research paper is a part of the 2017-FBE-L16 project. We, writers, are grateful for the financial support from the Unit of Scientific Research Projects of Igdir University, Igdir, Turkey.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Mühendislik
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Ağustos 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Nisan 2021
Kabul Tarihi
27 Haziran 2021
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2021 Sayı: 25
APA
Küçük, C., & Karaoğlu, M. (2021). Heavy Metal Pollution in the Agricultural Soils Alongside Highway 080 of Igdir Province. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 25, 325-333. https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.909276
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