<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Assessment of the environmental impact of El Sadat City, a Cairo satellite, known for its clustered enterprises, on the neighbourhood water supply El Manashi Tawfikia Canal was undertaken through soil analysis. A total of 20 agricultural soil samples were collected along the El Manashi Tawfikia Canal. Neutron activation analysis was implemented to determine heavy metal contents of such elements as As, Ba, Co, Cr, Ni, and Zn. Multivariate statistical analysis was applied to the results obtained. The metal pollution index and enrichment factor were calculated. It was shown that the content of toxic heavy metals in soil samples does not exceed the worldwide-published values, except arsenic which considerably exceeds normalized to the content of the same element in the Upper Continental Crust. The metal pollution index is high compared with the calculated ones for similar soil samples from the Nile Delta, and the enrichment factor varied from moderate to high enrichment (5 &lt; EF > 10).</p></abstract>

Assessment of the environmental impact of El Sadat City, a Cairo satellite, known for its clustered enterprises, on the neighbourhood water supply El Manashi Tawfikia Canal was undertaken through soil analysis. A total of 20 agricultural soil samples were collected along the El Manashi Tawfikia Canal. Neutron activation analysis was implemented to determine heavy metal contents of such elements as As, Ba, Co, Cr, Ni, and Zn. Multivariate statistical analysis was applied to the results obtained. The metal pollution index and enrichment factor were calculated. It was shown that the content of toxic heavy metals in soil samples does not exceed the worldwide-published values, except arsenic which considerably exceeds normalized to the content of the same element in the Upper Continental Crust. The metal pollution index is high compared with the calculated ones for similar soil samples from the Nile Delta, and the enrichment factor varied from moderate to high enrichment (5 < EF > 10).

Assessment of industrial contamination of agricultural soil adjacent to Sadat City, Egypt

Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), Nuclear Research Center, Radiation Protection & Civil Defense Department, 13759 Abu Zaabal, Egypt

Sector of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Division of Nuclear Physics, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot Curie, 6, 141980, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, phone +74962165609, fax +74962165085

Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Shibin El-koom, Menoufia University, Egypt

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

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Assessment of the environmental impact of El Sadat City, a Cairo satellite, known for its clustered enterprises, on the neighbourhood water supply El Manashi Tawfikia Canal was undertaken through soil analysis. A total of 20 agricultural soil samples were collected along the El Manashi Tawfikia Canal. Neutron activation analysis was implemented to determine heavy metal contents of such elements as As, Ba, Co, Cr, Ni, and Zn. Multivariate statistical analysis was applied to the results obtained. The metal pollution index and enrichment factor were calculated. It was shown that the content of toxic heavy metals in soil samples does not exceed the worldwide-published values, except arsenic which considerably exceeds normalized to the content of the same element in the Upper Continental Crust. The metal pollution index is high compared with the calculated ones for similar soil samples from the Nile Delta, and the enrichment factor varied from moderate to high enrichment (5  10).

Assessment of the environmental impact of El Sadat City, a Cairo satellite, known for its clustered enterprises, on the neighbourhood water supply El Manashi...

Assessment of industrial contamination of agricultural soil adjacent to Sadat City, Egypt

Publicado en línea: 07 jul 2016

Páginas: 297 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eces-2016-0021

Palabras clave
El Manashi Tawfikia Canal, Sadat City, soil, instrumental neutron activation analysis, trace elements, heavy metals

© 2016 Wael Badawy et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Assessment of industrial contamination of agricultural soil adjacent to Sadat City, Egypt

Publicado en línea: 07 jul 2016

Páginas: 297 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eces-2016-0021

Palabras claveEl Manashi Tawfikia Canal, Sadat City, soil, instrumental neutron activation analysis, trace elements, heavy metals

© 2016 Wael Badawy et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
El Manashi Tawfikia Canal, Sadat City, soil, instrumental neutron activation analysis, trace elements, heavy metals