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Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments along the coast of Korea
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한국 연안 표층퇴적물 내 중금속 오염도 조사 연구

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Kongtae Ra (한국해양과학기술원) Eun-Soo Kim (한국해양과학기술원) Kyung-Tae Kim (한국해양과학기술원) Joung-Keun Kim (한국해양과학기술원) Jung-Moo Lee (한국해양과학기술원)
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The Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy 한국해양환경·에너지학회 학술대회논문집 2012년도 한국해양환경공학회 추계학술대회 논문집
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2012.11
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301 - 308 (8page)

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Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments along the coast of Korea
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Metal concentrations were highly variable between locations and the average concentrations were 58.0 ㎎/㎏ for Cr, 10.6 ㎎/㎏ for Co, 24.9 ㎎/㎏ for Ni, 41.5 ㎎/㎏ for Cu, 139 ㎎/㎏ for Zn, 9.6 ㎎/㎏ for As, 0.36 ㎎/㎏ for Cd, 38.9 ㎎/㎏ for Pb and 0.061 ㎎/㎏ for Hg, respectively. The concentrations of metals in sediments were moderately contaminated, showing a decrease trend with distance from the pollution source originating primarily from urbanization and industrialization. Sediments from four bays represent highly industrialized sites including Shihwa, Masan, Gwangyang and Ulsan were highly contaminated with metals and their average concentrations were significantly higher than those found in sediments of other sites. Metals showed significantly positive correlations among them suggesting that sources of metal pollution were attributed to anthropogenic inputs from surrounding environments, especially national industrial complex. Different metal assessment indices, including enrichment factors, geo-accumulation index and pollution load index were discussed to interpret the pollution status for metals. The results of those indices indicated that metal pollution for Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Pb and Hg was occurred in the coast of Korea due to rapid industrialization. The enrichment factor of heavy metals were decreased following the order Cu>Hg>Cd>Zn>As>Pb>Co>Cr>Ni, with higher contribution about 72% to the sum of Cu, Hg, Cd and Zn.
The results in the present study are compared to the threshold effect level (TEL) and the probable effect level (PEL) to assess adverse ecological risks of heavy metal. Especially, sediments from highly industrialized bays were most toxic for Cu and Zn due to exceedances of the PEL values at more than 20% of sampling sites. Toxicity for other metals such as Cr, Ni, As and Pb concentrations ranged from the TEL to the PEL values at more than 87% of sampling sites. The metal concentrations of Cd and Hg in most sampling sediments are below the TEL values. Considering with SQGs, metal concentrations in sediments from the coast of Korea is predicted to be a threat to the marine environments.

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