Assessment of some trace heavy metals and radioactivity concentration in water of Bendimahi River Basin (Van, Turkey)

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2008

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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The levels of heavy metals were determined in the water of Bendimahi River Basin, statistically analysed and compared to natural gross radioactivity concentration. Fifteen samples of water were collected from Bendimahi River and Van Lake for two seasons in 2005. Water samples were analyzed for eight trace elements and concluded together with gross-alpha and gross-beta radioactivity concentrations. Atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) was used to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in water samples collected from Bendimahi River basin. Correlation analysis was made for radioactivity and heavy metal concentrations and the Pearson correlation coefficients between gross-alpha and gross-beta radioactivity and heavy metal were determined. The concentrations of all metals were found to be higher than WHO, EC, EPA and TSE-266 guidelines for drinking water, except for Zn and Cu. Generally, the heavy metal concentrations in water samples obtained in May and in August were found to be in sequence of Fe>Zn>Pb>Cr>Cu>Mn> Co>Cd and Fe>Zn>Cu>Pb>Cr>Mn>Co>Cd, respectively. The gross-alpha and gross-beta activity concentration varies between 0.063 and 0.782, 0.021 and 0.816 Bq l?1 in samples collected in May, and 0.009 and 0.037, 0.081 and 3.116 Bq l?1 in samples collected in August.

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Heavy metal, Gross-alpha, Gross-beta, Natural radioactivity, Water, Turkey

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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

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147

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Selçuk Zorer, Ö., Ceylan, H. ve Doğru, M. (2008). Assessment of some trace heavy metals and radioactivity concentration in water of Bendimahi River Basin (Van, Turkey). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 147, s. 183-190.