Soil contamination degree in eastern Serbia
2010
Mrvic, V., Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade (Serbia) | Perovic, V., Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade (Serbia) | Jakovljevic, M., Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade (Serbia) | Nikoloski, M., Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade (Serbia) | Brebanovic, B., Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade (Serbia)
The basic parameters of soil fertility and the contents of total forms of potentially harmful elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, F, Hg, Ni, Pb, Zn) were studied in three Districts in Eastern Serbia: Zajecarski, Branicevski and Borski. Field research included topsoil sampling on the plots distributed in 3.3 x 3.3 km. The stongest impact on soil contamination is that of the Copper Mining and Smelting Comlex Bor, with especially elevated soil contamination by copper and arsenic in the surroundings of Bor. Some samples from the Velika Morava alluvium show high concentrations of nickel and lead, and the soils of Mt. Deli Jovan, which mostly consists of pyroxene gabbros, and also of harrisites, dunites and serpentinites, show elevated concentrations of nickel and chromium. The analysis of samples shows that the greatest number of soils is not contaminated by the study pollutants. The most frequent potential pollutants are Cu and As (6% and 5% samples above MAC, respectively), Ni (2% of samples, with MAC 100 mg/kg), less frequent pollutants are Cr, Pb, Cd, and F (0.7-1.2% of samples), and very rarely Zn and Hg.
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