Potentially Harmful Elements Content in Soil and Stream Sediments in Southwestern Districts of Katowice (Southern Poland) – Geochemical Record of Historical Industrial Plants’ Activity

Weronika Nadłonek; Anna Pasieczna; Sylwia Skreczko

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Potentially Harmful Elements Content in Soil and Stream Sediments in Southwestern Districts of Katowice (Southern Poland) – Geochemical Record of Historical Industrial Plants’ Activity

Weronika Nadłonek

Anna Pasieczna

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Sylwia Skreczko

| 31 gru 2023

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources

Tom 34 (2023): Zeszyt 4 (December 2023)

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Data publikacji: 31 gru 2023

Zakres stron: 154 - 173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2023-0021

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environment pollution, Katowice City (Southern Poland), potentially harmful elements (PHEs), contamination factor (CF), geoaccumulation index (Igeo), threshold effect concentration (TEC), probable effect concentration (PEC)

© 2023 Weronika Nadłonek et al., published by Sciendo

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

The sampling area: A. Poland’s location in Europe; B. Sampling locations

Geological map accordi ng to Detailed geological map of Poland 1:50,000 Zabrze sheet [Wyczółkowski 1957]

Location of zinc smelter “Victor” an d “Ida” ironworks [according to Degenhardt, 1870]

Contamination factor (CF) values in soil (n=271)

Geoaccumulation index values in stream sediments

Threshold effect concentration (TEC) in stream sediments

Probable effect concentration (PEC) in stream sediments

Content of arsenic in topsoil and stream sediments

Content of cadmium in topsoil and stream sediments

Content of zinc in topsoil and stream sediments

Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) for topsoils; marked loads >0.7

Element	Topsoil
	F1	F2	F3	F4
	Ag, As, Cd, Pb, Zn	Co, Cr, Fe, Mn	Ba, Sr	Hg

Ag	0.88	−0.04	0.10	0.16

As	0.95	0.11	0.07	−0.06

Ba	0.26	0.23	0.80	0.21

Cd	0.83	0.13	0.19	0.21

Co	0.08	0.87	0.09	0.06

Cr	0.04	0.70	0.35	−0.01

Cu	0.31	0.23	0.64	−0.19

Fe	0.24	0.74	0.51	−0.03

Hg	0.11	0.10	0.09	0.84

Mn	0.14	0.79	−0.03	0.07

Ni	0.19	0.68	0.55	0.06

Pb	0.90	0.17	0.15	0.15

S	0.67	0.17	0.21	−0.33

Sr	0.10	0.13	0.89	0.01

Zn	0.84	0.16	0.18	−0.16

Variance %	31.07	20.97	17.90	6.82

Cumulative %	76.76

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in soils (n= 271)

Element/parameter	Detection limit	Min	Max	Median	Mean	^*Regional geochemical background (median)	St. dev.	Coefficient of variation CV %
Ag mg/kg	1	<1	5.2	0.5	0.5	<1	0.3	62
As mg/kg	3	<3	303.6	6.6	11.0	6	23.7	213
Ba mg/kg	1	10.0	1,045.4	134.0	175.9	59	150.6	86
Cd mg/kg	0.5	<0.5	78.0	2.0	3.5	2	6.8	193
Co mg/kg	1	<1	25.2	3.3	4.6	2	4.3	94
Cr mg/kg	1	<1	109.1	12.8	15.2	8	11.3	75
Cu mg/kg	1	1.6	279.1	19.6	27.2	9	29.5	109
Fe %	0.01	0.04	4.44	0.98	1.12	0.69	0.75	67
Hg mg/kg	0.02	0.03	4.49	0.08	0.12	0.05	0.28	229
Mn mg/kg	2	4.4	3,505.8	355.2	441.5	242	435.4	99
Ni mg/kg	1	<1	52.2	9.2	12.0	6	9.6	80
Pb mg/kg	2	7.5	2,485.2	95.9	161.9	72	236.8	146
S %	0.003	0.003	0.792	0.033	0.042	0.022	0.055	131
Sr mg/kg	1	1.2	287.7	20.0	31.3	9	35.5	113 4
Zn mg/kg	1	10.3	11,026.1	264.5	442.5	164	908.2	205
pH		4.3	8.8	7.2	6.8	6.74	1.2	18

Consensus-Based TEC and PEC values according to MacDonald et al. (2000)

	As	Cd	Cr	Cu	Hg	Ni	Pb	Zn
TEC	9.79	0.99	43.4	31.6	0.18	22.7	35.8	121
PEC	33.0	4.98	111	149	1.06	48.6	128	459

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in stream sediments (n= 58)

Element	Detection limit	Min	Max	Median	Mean	^*Regional geochemical background (median)	St. dev.	Coefficient of variation CV %
Ag mg/kg	1	<1	3	<1	<1	<1	<1	84
As mg/kg	3	<3	99	11.5	19.4	8.0	20.9	108
Ba mg/kg	1	20	427	124	136	97	91	67
Cd mg/kg	0.5	<0.5	202	7	19	4	35	183
Co mg/kg	1	<1	84	5	9	5	13	144
Cr mg/kg	1	3	452	18	26	12	58	219
Cu mg/kg	1	5	205	35	46	18	41	89
Fe %	0.01	0.10	18.85	1.28	1.83	1.33	2.54	139
Hg mg/kg	0.05	<0.05	6.04	0.09	0.31	0.09	0.84	275
Mn mg/kg	2	17	7,561	365	724	300	1,103	152
Ni mg/kg	1	3	152	14	22	12	24	110
Pb mg/kg	2	13	847	128	179	83	157	88
S %	0.003	0.029	5.143	0.222	0.465	0.161	0.797	172
Sr mg/kg	1	3	332	22	34	26	46	137
Zn mg/kg	1	69	9,614	815	1,546	447	1,950	126

Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) in stream sediments; marked loads >0.7

Element	Stream sediments
	F1	F2	F3	F4
	Cr, Mn	Ag, As, Cd, Pb, Zn	Co, Ni, S	Fe

Ag	−0.03	0.85	−0.04	−0.13

As	0.01	0.72	−0.02	0.60

Ba	0.69	0.02	−0.29	−0.01

Cd	0.00	0.85	0.12	0.02

Co	0.11	−0.02	0.95	0.07

Cr	0.91	0.05	0.04	0.06

Cu	0.69	0.32	0.46	−0.10

Fe	0.09	0.12	0.22	0.79

Hg	−0.10	0.25	−0.04	−0.51

Mn	0.85	−0.08	0.22	0.13

Ni	0.17	0.11	0.94	0.07

Pb	0.35	0.75	0.24	0.23

S	−0.06	0.26	0.89	0.08

Sr	0.44	0.23	0.47	−0.15

Zn	0.04	0.90	0.26	0.00

Variance %	19.22	24.41	22.24	9.20

Cumulative %	75.07

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Potentially Harmful Elements Content in Soil and Stream Sediments in Southwestern Districts of Katowice (Southern Poland) – Geochemical Record of Historical Industrial Plants’ Activity

Data publikacji: 31 gru 2023

Zakres stron: 154 - 173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2023-0021

Słowa kluczowe
environment pollution, Katowice City (Southern Poland), potentially harmful elements (PHEs), contamination factor (CF), geoaccumulation index (Igeo), threshold effect concentration (TEC), probable effect concentration (PEC)

© 2023 Weronika Nadłonek et al., published by Sciendo

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

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Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) for topsoils; marked loads >0.7

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in soils (n= 271)

Consensus-Based TEC and PEC values according to MacDonald et al. (2000)

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in stream sediments (n= 58)

Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) in stream sediments; marked loads >0.7

Potentially Harmful Elements Content in Soil and Stream Sediments in Southwestern Districts of Katowice (Southern Poland) – Geochemical Record of Historical Industrial Plants’ Activity

Data publikacji: 31 gru 2023

Zakres stron: 154 - 173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2023-0021

Słowa kluczoweenvironment pollution, Katowice City (Southern Poland), potentially harmful elements (PHEs), contamination factor (CF), geoaccumulation index (Igeo), threshold effect concentration (TEC), probable effect concentration (PEC)

© 2023 Weronika Nadłonek et al., published by Sciendo

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

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Figure 11.

Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) for topsoils; marked loads >0.7

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in soils (n= 271)

Consensus-Based TEC and PEC values according to MacDonald et al. (2000)

Statistical parameters of chemical element content in stream sediments (n= 58)

Principal Component Analysis (Varimax raw factor model) in stream sediments; marked loads >0.7

Słowa kluczowe
environment pollution, Katowice City (Southern Poland), potentially harmful elements (PHEs), contamination factor (CF), geoaccumulation index (Igeo), threshold effect concentration (TEC), probable effect concentration (PEC)