Heavy Metals Concentrations in Some Roadsides with Different Traffic Volumes in Rasht City-Iran
Ebrahim Alinia‐Ahandani
Abstract
Concerns around the usage of motor vehicle emissions on human health issues are especially concentrated on aerial pollution and are regulated via controls on tailpipe emissions. Toxic heavy metals are mentioned as a variety of important environmental contaminants cause of their none-degraded or none-destroyed properties. In this study, we investigated the pollution of heavy metal of pointed locations in the roadside dust in Rasht province (center of Guilan province in Iran northern). In this study, we have tried to considerate to road dust aspects in roadside soils of two distinct points: along road with dense traffic (20 street, high traffic volume) and road with lower traffic, a local road (20 street, low traffic volume). Samples of road dust (20 in general) were gathered under stable weather conditions during June and July of 2020. Samples of road dust were collected and analyzed for their variety of lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn), Nickel (Ni), Cobalt (Co) and Cadmium (Cd) concentrations by ICP-OES. The results have demonstrated that all heavy metal amounts except Cd, are higher than acceptable values in the target soils. Tend to illnesses, especially carcinogenic effects affected by these toxic metals are predictable.