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Pollution status and ecological risk of heavy metals in the soils of five land-use types in a typical sewage irrigation area, eastern China

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Sewage irrigation has been widespread in the water shortage area of eastern China and inevitably tends to result in heavy metal accumulation in soils. A total of 148 surface soil samples from five land-use types were collected in Longkou, a typical sewage irrigation area of China, and As, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn concentrations were determined. The Nemerow index method and improved fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method were used to examine the pollution status of heavy metals. The potential ecological risk was evaluated by the Hakanson model by adjusting the assessment threshold, and its spatial distribution was interpolated using geostatistical techniques. As, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn accumulated in different amounts in the five land-use types. Urban industrial land and mining land were moderately polluted, irrigated land was slightly polluted, orchards were minimally polluted, and bare land was at a safe level of pollution. Cd exhibited high percentages of strong and severe levels of potential ecological risks. For Cd, irrigated land, orchard, and bare land mainly presented moderate risks, whereas urban industrial land and mining land mainly presented high risks. The comprehensive ecological risk of the five heavy metals was at a severe level for all tested land-use classes except for bare land.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371395 and 41601549) and the Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong (2019GSF109034).

This work was also financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41701206), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2017BD011), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017 M622256).

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    Chunfang Li, Jianfei Cao, Lei Yao, Quanyuan Wu & Jianshu Lv

  2. College of communications and civil engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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Li, C., Cao, J., Yao, L. et al. Pollution status and ecological risk of heavy metals in the soils of five land-use types in a typical sewage irrigation area, eastern China. Environ Monit Assess 192, 471 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08384-1

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