Some heavy Metal pollution investigation in Sulaimani province groundwater

Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , Pages 37-50

Authors

¹ Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sulaimani

² College of Agriculture, Salahaddin University

The paper aims to go into the impact of some heavy metal contamination in the

Sulaimani province groundwater for irrigation purpose. Water samples were collected

from (36) locations in the study area that not the same and the heavy metals such as

(Iron, Zinc, Copper and Manganese) were finding out by using Atomic Absorption

Spectrophotometer. Heavy metal contamination appraisal in ground water required

cognition of pre anthropogenic metal concentrations to act as a reference against which

measured values can be compared. Groundwater taint by heavy metal was

accomplished using Enrichment Factor (EF), Metal Contamination Index (MCI),

Contamination Factor (CF), Pollution Index (PI), Contamination degree (Cd),

modified Contamination Degree (mCd), Pollution load Index (PLI) and Index of geo

accumulation (Igeo). Established on the above exponents, the results indicate the study

groundwater resources to be very low degree of contamination.

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