Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in The Town of Brno (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Strnad, M.; Sáňka, Milan; Boháček, Zbyněk; Borkovcová, I.; Vondra, J.

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“…The main sources of these trace elements include the atmospheric deposition of particles generated by automotive traffi c, heating systems, and resuspended street dust, the uncontrolled disposal of urban and commercial wastes, and the addition of fertilizers and composted sewage sludge to the soil (Carey et al . 1980 ;Haines 1984 ;Warren & Birch 1987 ;Fergusson 1990 ;Kabata -Pendias & Pendias 1992 ;Tiller 1992 ;Strnad et al . 1993 ;S á nchez -Camazano et al 1994 ;De Miguel et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

Trace Elements in Urban Environments: A Review

Charlesworth

Miguel²,

Ordóñez

2010

Sedimentology of Aqueous Systems

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Section: Street D Ustmentioning

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Trace Elements in Urban Environments: A Review

Charlesworth

Miguel²,

Ordóñez

2010

Sedimentology of Aqueous Systems

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“…Wang et al (2008) compared PAHs in two urban city soils of the United States and found that the average summed values of 17 PAHs were 5,100 µg kg −1 in New Orleans and these were about 35% less than the Detroit city soils. Several studies have reported that PAHs often coexist with trace metals in soils due to their similar pollution sources (Bradley et al, 1994;Kodama, 1988;Strnad et al, 1994;Weiss et al, 1994;Morillo et al, 2008). Notably, motor vehicle emissions were the likely sources of both PAHs and trace metals (e.g., Cd, Pb) in municipal refuse dump soils (Lin et al, 1995).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The primary sources of these metals in urban soils are reported to be from industrial sources (Pacyna and Pacyna, 2001), vehicular emissions, and waste disposal activities (Möller et al, 2005). Long-term traffic load of vehicles in the cities is another likely source of trace metals, especially Pb and Zn, in urban soils (Strnad et al, 1994). Worldwide trace metal contamination in urban soils suggests that there may be a potential risk to humans and terrestrial life.…”

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Trace Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Urbanized Area of Florida

Chahal

Brown

2010

Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal

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Contamination of soils by a variety of pollutants in urbanized and rapidly urbanizingregions is an ongoing problem in the world. Our objective in this study was to determine the contamination levels of trace metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban residential soils. Surface (0-15 cm) samples of soils were collected and analyzed from an urbanized region of Florida (Pinellas County: 725 km 2 , population: 921,482), for basic soil properties, trace metals, and PAHs. The pH of urban residential soils was between 5.4 and 8.0, the electrical conductivity ranged from 18 to 1170 µS cm −1 with an average value of 233 µS cm −1 , and total organic carbon of soils varied widely from 1 to 88 g kg −1 . Among the major elements determined in soils, contents of Mehlich 1 (M1) Ca were highest at 2330 mg kg −1 followed by M1-Mg (136 mg kg −1 ) and M1-Al (135 mg kg −1 ). Among the trace metals in soils, mean M1-Zn values were highest (18.6 mg kg −1 ) followed by M1-Fe (10 mg kg −1 ) and M1-Mn (8.6 mg kg −1 ). The contents of total PAHs (sum of the individual 14 PAHs) in urban residential soils varied from 83 to 2371 µg kg −1 , with a mean value of 731 µg kg −1 . Source analysis of PAHs in soils using molecular diagnostic indices suggested that PAHs in soils originated from both petrogenic and pyrolytic sources. Our results can be used to set baseline values of PAHs in urban residential soils of Florida and monitor changes in soil metals and PAHs values over a period of time due to anthropogenic inputs.

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“…Because of their mutagenic and carcinogenic properties, PAHs have been measured in a variety of environmental matrices including air, water, soil (sediment) and tissue samples (Youngblood and Blumer 1975;Wise et al 1993;Strad et al 1994;Fleming and Di Giulio 2011). Thus, these compounds have harmful damaging effects on human and environmental health.…”

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Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site in Hong Kong

Zhao

Chu

2012

Ecotoxicology

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The concentration of total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (∑PAHs) and the 16 US EPA priority individual PAH compounds were analyzed in surface sediments from the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay, Ramsar Site of Hong Kong from December 2001 to Jun 2005, to investigate the spatial variability of anthropogenic pollutants. ∑PAHs concentrations ranged from 36.5 to 256.3 ng g(-1) dry weight with an average of 148.9 ng g(-1), comparable to other urbanized areas of the world, and there was little difference among different sampling times from December 2001 to June 2005. Based on comparison to the results from earlier study, it appears that a decrease of total PAHs concentration has occurred since 1992. Meanwhile, the concentrations of ∑PAHs were positive correlated with total organic carbon contents except sites F and G, suggesting the characteristics of the sediment influences the distribution and concentration of PAHs. There was relatively a good relationship among the individual PAHs and the compounds of fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo[a]pyrene and indeno[cd]pyrene yielded a good correlation (r(2) > 0.5) with total PAHs. Principal component analysis and specific PAHs compound ratios (Phe/Ant vs. Flt/Pyr) indicate the pyrogenic origins, especially traffic exhausts, are the dominant sources of PAHs in the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Nature Reserve.

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Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in The Town of Brno (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Cited by 20 publications

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Trace Elements in Urban Environments: A Review

Trace Elements in Urban Environments: A Review

Trace Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Urbanized Area of Florida

Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site in Hong Kong

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