Heavy metal pollution of street dust in the largest city of Mexico, sources and health risk assessment
| Autor: | Avto Goguitchaichvili, Margarita Gutiérrez-Ruiz, Rubén Cejudo, Francisco Bautista, Agueda E. Ceniceros-Gómez, Anahi Aguilera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pollution
Heavy metal loads Acid digestion Health risk assessment media_common.quotation_subject Heavy metals General Medicine Street dust Contamination factor Management Monitoring Policy and Law Metal pollution Contamination USEPA health risk assessment Article Environmental chemistry Environmental science Pollution load index Health risk General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |
| ISSN: | 1573-2959 0167-6369 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10661-021-08993-4 |
| Popis: | In large industrialized cities, tons of particles containing heavy metals are released into the environment and accumulate on street surfaces. Such particles cause a potential risk to human health due to their composition and size. The heavy metal contamination levels, main emission sources, and human health risks were identified in 482 samples of street dust. Heavy metal concentrations were obtained by microwave-assisted acid digestion and ICP-OES. The results indicated that street dust in Mexico City is contaminated mainly with Pb, Zn, and Cu, according to the contamination factor and the geoaccumulation index. The pollution load index of the street dust was made with the concentrations of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, and Ni. The main sources of Pb, Zn, Cu, and Cr are anthropic, probably due to vehicular traffic. The highest levels of Cr and Pb in urban dust represent a health risk for children. Contamination limits were proposed for heavy metals in street dust of Mexico City. These limits might be useful to generate and apply public policies to decrease anthropic emissions of the heavy metals studied, particularly Cr and Pb. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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