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Zoning of some physicochemical parameters in the sediments of Meighan wetland in Iran: response to urbanization, industrial, and agricultural activities

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Meighan wetland is located at 8 km far away from Arak city with a population of about 600,000 citizens in the center of Iran. Several agricultural activities and industries such as metal, chemical, and mineral, as well as industrial towns, exist around the desired wetland. This research was conducted to measure the sources of chemical contaminants entering the wetland through natural and artificial waterways, to explore the trend of changes in the contaminants, and to prepare the wetland contamination zone map followed by source detection of these contaminants. Sediment samples were taken during 2019–2020 from a depth of 0–30 cm from 87 points in the input waterways. The results indicated that the mean total concentrations of cadmium, nickel, lead, zinc, copper, and aluminum in sediments were estimated as 6.7, 93.4, 14.1, 276.4, 34.3, and 22,742.7 ppm, respectively. The concentrations of nitrate and phosphate in the sediments were given as 18.6 and 1.8 ppm, respectively. The mean comparison indicated that the most significant level of nickel and lead belonged to the input waterways of industrial and urban regions; the maximum cadmium content was seen in the input waterways from the agricultural lands; and the highest level of zinc and aluminum was recorded in the waterways of agricultural-industrial urban regions. There was a significant relationship between the results of classic statistics and zoning found in GIS. Overall, chemical pollutants with the origin of input wastewater from the treatment plant of wastewater and the input waterways from the industrial and urban regions have had the largest share of contamination for Meighan wetland.

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Heidarzadeh, M., Abdi, N., Varvani, J. et al. Zoning of some physicochemical parameters in the sediments of Meighan wetland in Iran: response to urbanization, industrial, and agricultural activities. Environ Monit Assess 195, 894 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11120-0

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