Introduction. Urban runoff sediments contain heavy metals that generate risk to the environment. Several assessment indexes for have been developed, which show level of contamination particles in environment and their origin. Besides, sediment is also associated with particle size distribution hydrometeorological characteristics. Objective. This work seeks evaluate from collected an experimenta...

Lake Victoria (L. Victoria) is the largest African tropical and freshwater lake, with one of highest pollution levels, globally. It shared among Uganda, Kenya Tanzania, but it drained only by river Nile, longest in Africa. Though environmental studies have been conducted investigations heavy metals (HMs) contamination sediments from fish landing sites ports on Ugandan portion L. are limited. In...

Oil and pollutants resulting from its extraction and exploitation are considered as one of the serious problems for human health. Vast oil fields of Ahvaz City located in southern Iran are known as one of controversial subjects in contamination with heavy metals. In this study, oil fields' soils of Ahvaz city (Ab-Teymour) were chemically analyzed in order to determine the concentration of eight...

Gold mining is now widely acknowledged as one of the significant sources soil pollution in developed countries. In developing countries, and levels contamination have not been thoroughly addressed. Thus, this study was intended to determine source level active closed gold areas. The research paper presents load heavy metals (lead-Pb, chromium-Cr, cadmium-Cd, copper-Cu, arsenic-As, manganese-Mn,...

The present study was conducted in the SE area of phosphate plateaus (Khouribga) located central Morocco. It attempted to assess heavy metal (HM) (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn) contamination farmland soils and their potential ecological hazard non-non-carcinogenic risks using various pollution indices, magnetic susceptibility (MS), Geographical Information System (GIS) methods. A total 41 soil samples we...

Surface sediment samples were collected from different streams of Awetu Watershed in southwestern Ethiopia. Sediment analyzed for As, Cd, Cr, Pb, and Hg levels using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. The heavy metal concentration ranged 183.60 to 1,102.80 mg/kg As (mean 623.32 ± 291.65 mg/kg), 4.40–303.20 Cd (151.09 111.5 149.20–807.20 Cr (375 212.03 485.60–3,748.80 Pb (...

<p>The increasing industrialization and urbanization in recent times has led to a significant increase heavy metal pollution soil sediment. The present study aims evaluate the contamination (HmC) surface sediments collected from Kosasthalaiyar River located between latitudes 13°12′03″N 13°16′34″N longitudes 80°18′6″E 80°19′56″E. Ten sampling locations were selected area samples of analyze...

The concentrations of Cu, Zn, As, Pb, Cr, and Cd in soil were analyzed a mining area the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. average metal samples 204.07 mg/kg, 88.15 14.47 mg/kg 88.52 56.45 0.235 respectively. Based on evaluation standards, background values heavy metals, multiple pollution assessment indices, such as single factor index (Pi), geological accumulation (Igeo), Nemerow (Pn),...

Pawara area is a mining district in the eastern region of Cameroon. Mining generally artisanal and semi-mechanized, practiced by local miners immigrants from neighboring African countries China. The lack strict regulations control activities permits to use illegal substances, especially Hg gold separation. These expose toxic heavy metals pollution. This study highlights source concentration soi...