Toxic heavy metal contamination and risk assessment of street dust in small towns of Shanghai suburban area, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 323-332

  Zhang, Ju ^a   Deng, Huanguang ^a,b   Wang, Dongqi ^b,c   Chen, Zhenlou ^b   Xu, Shiyuan ^b  

^a LIAOCHENG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution character; Health risk assessment; Heavy metals; Potential ecological risk; Shanghai; Street dust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREET CANYON; SUBURBAN AREA;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84871943276     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-0908-y     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Akhter MS, Madany IM (1993) Heavy metals in street and house dust in Bahrain. Water Air Soil Poll 66: 111-119.
2. Al-Khashman OA (2004) Heavy metal distribution in dust, street dust and soils from the work place in Karak Industrial Estate, Jordan. Atmos Environ 38: 6803-6812.
3. Allott RW, Hewitt CN, Kelly MR (1990) The environmental half-lives and mean residence times of contaminants in dust for an urban environment: Barrow-in-Furness. Sci Total Environ 93: 403-410.
4. Al-Rajhi MA, Seaward MRD, Al-Aamer AS (1996) Metal levels in indoor and outdoor dust in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Environ Int 22: 315-324.
5. Banerjee ADK (2003) Heavy metal levels and solid phase speciation in street dust of Delhi, India. Environ Pollut 123: 95-105.
6. Charlesworth S, Everett M, McCarthy R, Ordóñez A, De Miguel E (2003) A comparative study of heavy metal concentration and distribution in deposited street dust in a large and a small urban area: Birmingham and Coventry, West Midlands, UK. Environ Int 29: 563-573.
7. Chon HT, Kim KW, Kim JY (1995) Metal contamination of soils and dusts in Seoul metropolitan city, Korea. Environ Geochem Health 17: 139-146.
8. Chon HT, Ahn JS, Jung MC (1998) Seasonal variations and chemical forms of heavy metals in soils and dusts from the satellite cities of Seoul, Korea. Environ Geochem Health 20: 77-86.
9. Christoforidis A, Stamatis N (2009) Heavy metal contamination in street dust and roadside soil along the major national road in Kavala's region, Greece. Geoderma 151: 257-263.
10. Deng H, Zhang J, Wang D, Chen Z, Xu S (2010) Heavy metal pollution and assessment of the tidal flat sediments near the coastal sewage outfalls of Shanghai, China. Environ Earth Sci 60: 57-63.
11. Ferreira-Baptista L, De Miguel E (2005) Geochemistry and risk assessment of street dust in Luanda, Angola: a tropical urban environment. Atmos Environ 39: 4501-4512.
12. Hakanson L (1980) An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control: a sedimentological approach. Water Res 14(8): 975-1001.
13. Harrison RM, Laxen DPH, Wilson SJ (1981) Chemical associations of lead, cadmium, copper and zinc in street dusts and roadside soils. Environ Sci Technol 15: 1378-1383.
14. Hu X, Zhang Y, Luo J, Wang T, Lian H, Ding Z (2011) Bioaccessibility and health risk of arsenic, mercury and other metals in urban street dusts from a mega-city, Nanjing, China. Environ Pollut 159: 1215-1221.
15. Li X, Poon C, Liu P (2001) Heavy metal contamination of urban soils and street dusts in Hong Kong. Appl Geochem 16: 1361-1368.
16. Lu X, Li L, Wang L, Lei K, Huang J, Zhai Y (2009) Contamination assessment of mercury and arsenic in roadway dust from Baoji, China. Atmos Environ 43: 2489-2496.
17. Maltby L, Boxall ABA, Forrow DM, Calow P, Betton CI (1995) The effects of motorway runoff on freshwater ecosystems: 2. Identifying major toxicants. Environ Toxicol Chem 14: 1093-1101.
18. De Miguel E, Llamas JF, Chacón E, Berg T, Larssen S, Røyset O, Vadset M (1997) Origin and patterns of distribution of trace elements in street dust: unleaded petrol and urban lead. Atmos Environ 31: 2733-2740.
19. De Miguel E, Iribarren I, Chacón E, Ordoňez A, Charlesworth S (2007) Risk-based evaluation of the exposure of children to trace elements in playgrounds in Madrid (Spain). Chemosphere 66: 505-513.
20. Shi G, Chen Z, Xu S, Zhang J, Wang L, Bi C, Teng J (2008) Potentially toxic metal contamination of urban soils and roadside dust in Shanghai, China. Environ Pollut 156: 251-260.
21. Shi G, Chen Z, Bi C, Li Y, Teng J, Wang L, Xu S (2010) Comprehensive assessment of toxic metals in urban and suburban street deposited sediments (SDSs) in the biggest metropolitan area of China. Environ Pollut 158: 694-703.
22. Shi G, Chen Z, Bi C, Wang L, Teng J, Li Y, Xu S (2011) A comparative study of health risk of potentially toxic metals in urban and suburban road dust in the most populated city of China. Atmos Environ 45: 764-771.
23. Sutherland RA, Tolosa CA (2000) Multi-element analysis of road-deposited sediment in an urban drainage basin, Honolulu, Hawaii. Environ Pollut 110: 483-495.
24. Sutherland RA, Tack FMG, Ziegler AD, Bussen JO (2004) Metal extraction from road-deposited sediments using nine partial decomposition procedures. Appl Geochem 19: 947-955.
25. Tokali{dotless}oǧlu Ş, Kartal Ş (2006) Multivariate analysis of the data and speciation of heavy metal in street dust samples from the Organized Industrial District in Kayseri (Turkey). Atmos Environ 40: 2797-2805.
26. US Environmental Protection Agency (2002) Supplemental guidance for developing soil screening levels for superfund sites. OSWER 9355. 4-24. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Washington, DC.
27. Wang Y, Wang Y, Luo H (1992) The backgrounds of soil environment in Shanghai. China Environmental Science Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
28. Wei B, Yang L (2010) A review of heavy metal contaminations in urban soils, urban road dusts and agricultural soils from China. Microchem J 94: 99-107.
29. Wei B, Jiang F, Li X, Mu S (2009) Spatial distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metals in urban road dusts from Urumqi, NW China. Microchem J 93: 147-152.
30. Wei B, Jiang F, Li X, Mu S (2010) Heavy metal induced ecological risk in the city of Urumqi, NW China. Environ Monit Assess 160: 33-45.
31. Zheng N, Liu J, Wang Q, Liang Z (2010) Health risk assessment of heavy metal exposure to street dust in the zinc smelting district, Northeast of China. Sci Total Environ 408: 726-733.