Assessment of Total Amount of Surface Sediment in Urban Environment Using Data on Solid Matter Content in Snow-Dirt Sludge

Seleznev, Andrian A.; Yarmoshenko, Ilia V.; Malinovsky, Georgy

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“…Identifying potential sources of metals in soils is important for controlling priority pollutants. Recently, various mathematical models and methods of statistical analysis have been applied, such as the various indices usually called environmental factors (EFs) such as, the contamination factor (CF), the geo-accumulation index (Igeo), the availability factor (AF), principal component analysis (PCA), and factor analysis (FA) [20,21]. These tools are highly used to distinguish the natural and human origins of metals in soil systems [17] On the other hand, GIS in environmental pollution is a valuable tool for mapping out the contaminants in soil.…”

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Level of Contamination Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Urban Soils of Volos City (Central Greece)

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A three-year study, designed to record the level of potentially toxic elements within the urban complex in the city of Volos, Greece, was carried out between 2018 and 2020. For the needs of the aforementioned study, 62 surface (0–15 cm) soil samples were collected each year (i.e., 186 samples in total) from an urban area of 3.65 km2, and the average value of pseudo-total metal concentration was measured. Soil pollution indices, such as the contamination factor (CF) and the geo-accumulation index (Igeo), were estimated regarding each of the metals of interest. The respective thematic maps were constructed, and the spatial variability of the contamination degree was displayed. Higher values of the CF and Igeo were obtained near the heavy traffic roads and beside the railway station, the bus stations, and the commercial port. The maps based on the pollution indices, along with the database that was constructed using the appropriate mathematical tools of geostatistical analysis, may be a useful tool for monitoring, prediction, and continuous verification of contamination in the urban soils of Volos city.

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Level of Contamination Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Urban Soils of Volos City (Central Greece)

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“…In recent years, sediment deposition in urban areas has received considerable attention due to the ease of sampling sediment material and its ability to act as an indicator of urban pollution levels [13,14]. USDS are particles consisting of sediments, soil, leaves, debris, and organic and inorganic materials [12,15].…”

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Health risk assessment quantification from heavy metals contamination in the urban soil and urban surface deposited sediment

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Yarmoshenko

2020

Journal of Taibah University for Science

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Urban soil and urban surface deposited sediments (USDS) are a large basin for receiving heavy metal contaminants from natural resources and anthropogenic activities. The present study is a review carried out the previous studies determine metal impacts in the urban environment on potential health hazards. The environmental risk index (E r) values follow a trend for different urban soils and USDS: the high E r value in the period 1980-1990 in urban areas is due to Cd 7200, followed by Pb 662, Cu 42, Zn 23, and Ni 6. The health risk assessment varied with the type of heavy metal, the time of year, the level of contamination, environmental pollution, and the human age. No significant risk was identified for adults and children in different urban areas.

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“…Surface deposited sediment is often used as an indicator in urban geochemical studies [15][16][17][18][19] . Sediments are lithologically and geochemically associated with the territory of the city, thus they reflect the geochemical conditions of the surrounding area.…”

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Urban geochemical changes and pollution with potentially harmful elements in seven Russian cities

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Yarmoshenko

Malinovsky

2020

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This paper presents results of an analysis of potentially harmful elements (PHEs, Pb, Zn and Cu) and conservative element (CE, Fe) concentrations in urban surface deposited sediment (USDS). The study was conducted in seven large Russian cities located in different geographic and climatic zones, and in territories with different geology and anthropogenic pressures: Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniy Tagil, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen, and Ufa. The initial geochemical baseline relationships between PHEs and CE concentrations in the USDS were reconstructed for each city applying an approach based on linear weighted fitting of PHE as a function of CE with lower weights assigned to more polluted samples. The reconstructed average initial baseline Pb, Cu, and Zn concentrations varied between 17-52, 25-196, and 91-413 mg kg −1 , respectively. Several new criteria for assessing the degree of geochemical transformation and pollution of the urban environment, such as the percentage of polluted samples, average pollutant concentration in polluted samples, and weighting degree index δ, were suggested and compared with common criteria, such as the PHE concentration and the geo-accumulation index. The environmental rank of a city significantly differed depending on whether the criterion for ranking was total pHe pollution or changes in comparison with the initial geochemical baseline. An urban landscape is an environment formed as an upper geological strata of the Anthropocene 1,2. The content of elements in environmental compartments in an urban area changes as a result of anthropogenic activities during landscape forming. The transformation of geochemical conditions in an urban area is a permanent environmental process governed by natural and artificial components. The content of elements in compartments of the urban environment at some initial moment, that either existed in reality or is assumed, before artificial and natural components of the environment were subject to any anthropogenic impact after creation of the landscape, is considered as initial geochemical baseline (IGB) conditions. Geochemical transformation and change of the IGB is a complex process affecting all components of the urban environment 3. The primary driving forces of the geochemical transformation include pollution of the environmental compartments by point and nonpoint sources 4 and erosion and degradation of the environmental compartments as a result of natural and anthropogenic impacts 5. Geochemical transformation in the urban environment consists of altering mineral and elemental composition, modification of physicochemical properties of the urban soil 6 , urban surface deposited sediment (USDS) formation, in particular road deposited sediment 4,5,7 , changes in volume of the surface stormwater runoff 8,9 , redistribution of pollutants 3,10 , and forming geochemical barriers 7 among others. USDS is an environmental compartment that is involved with the majority of geochemical transformation processes. In the urban environment, the ra...

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Assessment of Total Amount of Surface Sediment in Urban Environment Using Data on Solid Matter Content in Snow-Dirt Sludge

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Level of Contamination Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Urban Soils of Volos City (Central Greece)

Level of Contamination Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Urban Soils of Volos City (Central Greece)

Health risk assessment quantification from heavy metals contamination in the urban soil and urban surface deposited sediment

Urban geochemical changes and pollution with potentially harmful elements in seven Russian cities

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