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

Table 5

Comparison between sediment metal contents (mg/kg) in the Badovci Lake (present study) and similar lakes within the Balkan region and other lakes.

		Badovci Lake Current study	Lake Balaton [34]	Lake Ohrid [35]	Lake Skadar [36]	Uzunçayır Dam Lake [37]	Basins of water bodies in Silesian Upland, Southern Poland [38]
Metals	Unit	Average	Min–max	Min–max	Min–max	Mean	Min–max
Al	mg/kg	17002	—	—	—	—
As		24.2	—	—	—	9.08	5.0–7.0
Ba		144	—	—	—	—	474–530
Cd		<1	0.1–0.7	—	0.05–1.01	0.17	0.5–0.5
Co		13	1.7–17	6.07–117	—	—	2.0–6.0
Cr		276	5.7–66	2.2–576	10.28–82.60	97.25	53–72
Cu		61.2	0.7–36	1.51–34.9	7.65–28.53	29.45	8.0–20
Fe		19084	—	3510–77400	—	31740	—
Mn		660	—	—	—	631.6	—
Ni		305	4.4–5.5	10.4–1501	23.6–136.1	237.8	10–16
Pb		167	2.4–160	—	3.71–60.1	11.32	19–33
V		88.2	—	—	—	—	35–44
Zn		122	13–150	6.99–42.4	25.7–87.2	62.81	75–116