Abstract

ROSTAMLU, Neda et al. Assessment of heavy metals pollution in surface soils in the industrial town of Urmia phase 1-2 and expansion. J. Selva Andina Res. Soc. [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.1, pp.63-72.  Epub Feb 29, 2024. ISSN 2072-9294.  https://doi.org/10.36610/j.jsars.2024.150100063.

The surface soil pollution of the three industrial towns of Urmia, 9 km northeast of this city, is the subject of this article. For this purpose, samples were taken from 9 points, and heavy metals such as iron, manganese, cadmium, copper, zinc, and lead has been analyzed to calculate the indicators of Geoaccumulation Index and pollution factors for these heavy metals. The background element concentration should be calculated for each element to calculate these factors. 59 samples for each element were used in the pristine areas of Urmia Plain by atomic absorption method. The presented research results show that the soil of the region is contaminated with heavy metals, so the amount of contamination for heavy metals manganese and cadmium is meager, and for the heavy metals iron and copper, they are in the middle range and for the heavy metals zinc and lead, they are in the high range. The pollution concentration around the town of expansion phase and phase 2 is more than the town of phase 1, which seems to be the cause of the food industry activity in the town of phase 1 and the activity of electronics, paint and metal industries in the expansion phase and phase 2. It seems that the high amounts of lead and zinc heavy metals in the soils around the industrial towns of Urmia are due to the activities of production units such as electronic industry, ceramics industry, metal industry, paint industry and battery production. The aforementioned industries dump their industrial waste water into the surroundings of the towns and cause soil pollution. Figure 7 shows the discharge of industrial wastewater from the expansion phase town to surrounding area. It seems that the creation of a wastewater treatment plant for polluting units and increasing the capacity of the existing treatment plant in the industrial town is important in reducing pollution.

Keywords : Pollution; heavy metals; surface soils; industrial Town; Urmia.

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