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

Table 4

Heavy metal content (in mg/kg dw) in the sediment 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/kg)	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.1	0.1	0.05	0.01	0.005	0.005	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
S1	6214	<10	115	<1	<10	203	32.3	11637	268	139	183	66.4	115
S2	3865	<10	121	<1	<10	225	42.5	12119	243	178	170	77.3	116
S3	32556	21.5	232	<1	<10	216	65.1	24724	420	198	208	97.7	145
S4	32892	29.9	159	<1	<10	250	71.2	28146	557	231	265	110.4	178
S5	16803	21.2	140	<1	<10	193	57.5	12518	513	202	205	84	132
S6	15951	29.5	99.3	<1	<10	208	63.7	14620	682	220	143	93.5	93.1
S7	14995	27.4	99.8	<1	<10	211	72.5	15076	820	245	132	83.3	107
S8	9167	19.2	137	<1	<10	331	76.9	23183	1008	411	147	105.3	118
S9	20656	28.2	234	<1	<10	365	70.5	25517	1502	565	158	88.1	128
S10	16920	17.1	107	<1	13	555	59.4	23297	584	666	57.3	76.3	85.1
Average	17002	24.2	144	<1	13	276	61.2	19084	660	305	167	88.2	122
^aT&I DL	—	29/55	160/625	0.8/12	20/240	100/380	36/190	—	—	35/210	85/530	42	140/720
^bFSTRV	14000	6	20	0.6	—	26	16	—	—	16	31	—	110
^cLake Skadar	13763	—	—	0.5	—	63.5	26.8	17400	529	88.9	18.1	—	53.2

DL: detection limit; ^aDutch Target and Intervention Values, 2000 (the New Dutch List), Version, February 4, 2000 (http://www.esdat.net) [33]; ^bfreshwater sediment toxicity reference value proposed by USEPA 1999 [31]; ^cVemic et al. [29].