Resumo

DIAZ RIZO, Oscar et al. Assessment of heavy metal content in urban agricultural soils from the surrounding of steel-smelter plant using X-ray fluorescenc. Nucleus [online]. 2015, n.57, pp. 38-43. ISSN 2075-5635.

Concentrations of Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb in the topsoils (0-10 cm) from ten farms located in the vicinity of a steel-smelter plant at Cotorro (Havana, Cuba) were measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis. The concentration ranges of Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb were 54-186, 15-39, 19-137, 50-945, 91-7739 and 21-731 dry weight respectively. The metal mean contents in the farm topsoil samples were compared with metal contents reported for soils from the vicinity of other smelters worldwide. The Metal-to-Iron normalisation and estimation of the integral pollution indexes allowed observing that most metal polluted soils are from those farms, and that their location coincide with the prevalent wind direction in the studied area. The enrichment index values show that metal concentrations in soils from these farms are above the permissible levels for urban agriculture

Palavras-chave : X-ray fluorescence; soil pollution; heavy metals; steel-smelters; urban agriculture; Cuba.

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