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Assessment of Heavy Metal Concentrations in the Arable Soils near Industrial Complexes in Gangwon, Chungnam, Jeonnam, and Gyeongnam Provinces of South Korea
Tae-Gu Lee1
,
Myung-Suk Kong1
,
Eun-Jin Lee1
,
Ha-il Jung1
,
Yihyun Kim1
,
Goo-Bok Jung2
,
Jae-E Yang3
,
Sung-Chul Kim4
,
Gi-In Kim5
,
Gwon-Rae Kim6
,
Mi-Jin Chae1*
1Division of Soil and Fertilizer, Department of Agricultural Environment, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA
2Division of Planning & Coordination, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA
3Department of Environment Convergence, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kangwon National University
4Department of Biological Environment and Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University
5Department of Horticulture Science, College of Natural Science, Mokpo National University
6Department of Agronomy and Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Bioscience, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology
* Corresponding Author
30 November 2019. pp. 541-550
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Abstract

Heavy metal (HM) pollution in agricultural lands and waters, which is rapidly increasing due to social and industrial activities, such as mining and smelting. Moreover, HM contamination causes serious environmental problems and adversely influences on the safety of agricultural production. This study established the concentrations of HM on the arable lands near industrial complexes in Gangwon (GW), Chungnam (CN), Jeonnam (JN), and Gyeongnam (GN) in South Korea. Soil samples were collected and established from 600 sites of agricultural lands nearby 60 industrial complexes in the selected provinces. Eight HMs (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr, As and Zn) were analyzed to compare degrees of the HM pollution using standard analytical methods. The average total concentration of all HMs from samples of the analyzed soils did not exceed the warning criteria as suggested by the Soil Environmental Conservation Law of Korea. The concentration of Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, As and Hg were mostly distributed below one half concentration of warning criteria, except for the Cr and Hg. Particularly, 99.2% of Hg concentrations among the assessed samples distributed below one-twentieth values of the warning criteria. Contamination degree (Cd) of GW and GN provinces were moderate degree, CN and JN province were low degree contamination. Four provinces were classified as “uncontaminated” by PI (Pollution index).

Contamination assessment using Cf†, Cd† and PI§.

Province CfCdPI
Cu Pb Zn Ni As
GW 1.2 2.8 1.6 1.1 2.2 9.0 0.23
CN 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.5 6.4 0.17
JN 0.6 2.6 0.8 0.6 1.4 5.9 0.14
GN 2.8 1.4 1.8 1.6 1.7 9.4 0.24

GW, Gangwon; CN, Cungnam; JN, Jeonnam; GN, Gyeongnam.†Cf, Contamination factor.†Cd, Contamination degree.§PI, Pollution index.

Keywords
Arable soil
Contamination
Heavy metal
Industrial complex

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  • Publisher :Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국토양비료학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국토양비료학회 학회지
  • Volume : 52
  • No :4
  • Pages :541-550
  • Received Date : 2019-10-29
  • Revised Date : 2019-11-19
  • Accepted Date : 2019-11-27
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7745/KJSSF.2019.52.4.541
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