Assessment of Heavy Metal Concentrations with Fractionation Method in Sediments and Waters of the Badovci Lake (Kosovo)

Table 2

Heavy metal concentration (in mg/L) in waters of the Badovci Lake and comparison to other studies and different international guidelines.

Metals	Al	As	Ba	Cd	Co	Cr	Cu	Fe	Mn	Ni	Pb	V	Zn
DL (mg/L)	0.002	0.003	0.001	0.002	0.005	0.001	0.002	0.01	0.001	0.003	0.001	0.001	0.005
S1	0.72	<0.01	0.033	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.01	1.1	0.076	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S2	0.44	<0.01	0.028	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.033	0.67	0.053	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.007
S3	0.58	<0.01	0.028	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.009	0.9	0.063	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.006
S4	0.41	<0.01	0.027	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.017	0.58	0.051	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S5	0.72	<0.01	0.029	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.01	1.14	0.111	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S6	1.43	<0.01	0.034	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.009	2.29	0.285	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S7	1.2	<0.01	0.03	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.003	1.81	0.16	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S8	0.23	<0.01	0.024	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.001	0.3	0.042	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S9	0.23	<0.01	0.024	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.003	0.29	0.025	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
S10	0.55	<0.01	0.029	<0.001	<0.01	<0.001	0.211	0.82	0.09	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.001
Average	0.65	<0.01	0.028	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.031	0.99	0.096	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.002
±SD	±0.39	—	±0.003	—	—	—	±0.064	±0.64	±0.077	—	—	<0.01	±0.002
^aEC 98/83	0.2	0.01	—	0.005	—	0.05	2	0.2	0.05	0.02	0.01	—	—
^bFTRV	0.087	0.15	0.004	0.002	—	0.011	0.009	—	—	0.052	0.002	<0.10	0.118
^cBadovci Lake, 2016	0.0420	<0.010	0.0260	0.0020	—	0.0020	0.0030	0.0360	0.0039	0.0015	<0.01	0.001	0.041

DL: detection limit; ^aEU Directive 1998/83 Drinking Water Standards (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A31998L0083) [30]; ^bfreshwater toxicity reference value proposed by USEPA 1999 [31]; ^cGashi et al. [14].