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Total concentrations and speciation of heavy metals in soils of the Shenyang Zhangshi Irrigation Area, China

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The Shenyang Zhangshi Irrigation Area (SZIA) was used for the spreading of municipal and industrial waste water, which is an economic way of irrigating crops, recycling nutrients and water treatment. Long-term irrigation resulted in a severe metal contamination of soils. To identify the soil phases implicated in retaining the metals, sequential extractions were performed. The most predominant metal was cadmium which was mainly associated with mobile, easily soluble and easily reducible fractions. Copper was mainly associated with the residual, EDTA extractable and moderately reducible fractions. Lead was bound to organic matter and poorly crystalline Fe-oxides. Nickel and zinc were mainly associated with the residual and strongly reducible fractions. Although copper, lead, nickel and zinc concentrations were of minor importance mobile metal concentrations of these metals as well as of cadmium exceeded German trigger values for plant production and plant growth.

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    T. Ratuzny & B.-M. Wilke

  2. Department of Pollution Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 417, Shenyang, 110016, People’s Republic of China

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Ratuzny, T., Gong, Z. & Wilke, BM. Total concentrations and speciation of heavy metals in soils of the Shenyang Zhangshi Irrigation Area, China. Environ Monit Assess 156, 171–180 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0473-5

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