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Accumulation of heavy metals with water quality parameters in Kızılırmak River Basin (Delice River) in Turkey
- Source :
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 173:387-395
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010.
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Abstract
- Kizilirmak River has been used as Ankara’s drinking water source for approximately 1.5 years. Therefore, this region’s water, sediment, and fish samples are measured for detecting the heavy metals. This is important for the current situation as well as the future in terms of potential impact. The amount of heavy metals in drinking water should be within the limited values; otherwise, the accumulation of heavy metals will cause many problems to living organisms. Especially high levels of arsenic, cadmium, nickel, mercury, etc. are very dangerous to freshwater ecosystems as for human if the water is being use as drinking water. In this study, water, sediment samples, muscle, and gills of three fish species (Capoeta tinca, Capoeta capoeta, Leuciscus cephalus) were analyzed for the presence of heavy metals such as (Al, Fe, As, Cd, Ni, Mn, Se, Si) to determine present accumulation levels and possible toxic effect. The accumulation pattern of heavy metals in the water, sediment, and fish tissue follows the sequence: Si > Fe > Al > Mn > As > Ni > Se > Cd, Fe > Al > Mn > Ni > As > Se > Cd, and Fe > Al > Mn > As > Ni > Si > Cd. In addition, the detected concentrations of heavy metals in the Kizilirmak and Delice Rivers are compared with other heavy metal studies in the other main rivers and lakes in Turkey.
- Subjects :
- Turkey
Drainage basin
chemistry.chemical_element
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Rivers
Metals, Heavy
Animals
Ecotoxicology
Capoeta capoeta
Arsenic
General Environmental Science
geography
Cadmium
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Fishes
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Mercury (element)
chemistry
Bioaccumulation
Environmental chemistry
Environmental science
Water quality
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732959 and 01676369
- Volume :
- 173
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....079ddd4eaaa2ba2ad60bafa3c982e06e