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Heavy Metals in Street Dust in Sarajevo Area, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A. Razanica1 * , J. Huremovic1 , S. Zero1 , S. Gojak-Salimovic1 and M. Memic1

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 33-35, Sarajevo, 71000 Bosnia and Herzegovina

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.1.06

Heavy metal pollutant in urban street dust has become a growing concern in recent years. Street dust samples from urban and suburban areas were collected from the Sarajevo area, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the spring season of 2013. Samples were collected from low and high-density traffic roads, industrial zones, parks, parking places, hospitals and local health centers, school gardens. The levels of heavy metals of street dusts were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, iron, manganese, lead and zinc levels in the dust samples were found in the range of 0.58–3.65, 3.42–60.82, 5.49–388, 9.31–161, 647–2244, 6.10–13.32, 31.63-1760 and 40.29–378 µg/g, respectively. The highest metal concentrations were found in samples from industrial zone and in the streets with heavy traffic. The lowest levels of the metal concentrations were found in the samples from health centers and school gardens. The concentrations of the metals were, in most of cases, similar to the mean world-wide contents of the street dust samples. Correlations between heavy trace metal levels of the dust samples were also evaluated.

Street Dust; Heavy Metals; Sarajevo Area and Pollution

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Razanica A, Huremovic J, Zero S, Gojak-Salimovic S, Memic M. Heavy Metals in Street Dust in Sarajevo Area, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Curr World Environ 2014;9(1) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.1.06

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Razanica A, Huremovic J, Zero S, Gojak-Salimovic S, Memic M. Heavy Metals in Street Dust in Sarajevo Area, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Curr World Environ 2014;9(1). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=5969

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