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

Table 7

Comparison of the pollution indicators (CF, EF, and I_geo) between Badovci Lake and other lakes.

	Contamination factor				Enrichment factor				Index of geoaccumulation
	Badovci Lake	Viroi Lake [40]	Uzunçayır Dam Lake [37]	Silesian basin [38]	Badovci Lake	Viroi Lake [40]	Uzunçayır Dam Lake [6]	Silesian basin [38]	Badovci Lake	Viroi Lake [40]	Uzunçayır Dam Lake [37]	Silesian basin [38]
As	0.83	—	5.04	—	17.83	—	0	15.00	0.167	—	—	0.0–5.20
Ba	0.90	—	—	—	0.844	—	—	1.08	0.181	—	—	1.55–3.72
Cd	0	—	1.09	—	0	—	1.61	109.8	0	—	—	1.77–6.89
Co	1.44	—	—	—	0	—	—	8.25	0	—	—	0.74–3.91
Cr	2.75	—	1.08	—	10.92	1.016	1.61	2.11	0.55	0.56	—	2.35–3.91
Cu	1.69	—	0.65	—	8.25	2.15	0.96	10.64	0.34	0.73	—	0.0–3.73
Ni	8.71	—	3.49	—	22.64	4.51	5.27	4.75	1.75	1.59	—	0.28–3.17
Pb	1.92	—	0.56	—	38.53	3.5	0.83	87.22	1.3	1.22	—	0.55–5.18
V	1.98	—	—	—	3.46	—	—	2.08	0.424	—	—	1.90–2.96
Zn	0.87	—	0.66	—	6.95	—	0.97	47.04	0.177	—	—	2.60–6.63