Environment impact of heavy metals on urban soil in the vicinity of industrial area of Baoji city,P.R. China |
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| Authors: | Xiaoping Li Chunchang Huang |
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| Institution: | (1) College of Tourism and Environment, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 1 ShiDa Road, Xian, 710062, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | Heavy metals in soils are of great environmental concern, in order to evaluate heavy metal contents and their relationships
in the surface soil of industrial area of Baoji city, and also to investigate their influence on the soils. Soil samples were
collected from 50 sites, and the concentration of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni heavy metals and the contents of characteristics in soil
from industrial area of Baoji city were determined with X-ray fluorescence method. The concentrations of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr and
Ni in the investigated soils reached the amount of 2,682.00–76,979.42, 169.30–8,288.58, 62.24–242.36, 91.96–110.54 and 36.14–179.28 mg kg−1, respectively. The major element Pb contents of the topsoils were determined. to highlight the influence of ‘anthropic’ features
on the heavy metal concentrations and their distributions. To compare, all values of elements were much higher than those
of unpolluted soils in the middle of Shaanxi province that average 16.0–26.5, 67.1–120.0, 17.8–57.0, 46.9–65.6 and 24.7–34.6 mg kg−1 for Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr and Ni, respectively. An ensemble of basic and relativity analysis was performed to reduce the precipitate
of Pb in soil was extremely high and greatly relativity with other elements. Meanwhile, Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni heavy metals were
typical elements of anthropic activities sources, so it was easy to infer to the tracers of anthropic pollutions from the
factorial analysis, which was coming from the storage battery manufactory pollutions. The pollutant distributions were constructed
for the urban area which identified storage battery manufactory soot precipitate as the main source of diffuse pollution and
also showed the contribution of the topsoils of industrial area of Baoji city as the source point of pollution. Consequently,
the impact of heavy metals on soil was proposed and discussed. These results highlight the need for instituting a systematic
and continuous monitoring of heavy metals and other forms of pollutants in Baoji city to ensure that pollution does not become
a serious problem in the future. |
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| Keywords: | Environment impact X-ray fluorescence Urban soil Pb pollution |
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