The impact of heavy metals in water from abandoned mine on human health

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Eva Singovszka
Magdalena Balintova
Natalia Junakova
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[1] Technical University of Kosice,Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering
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SN Applied Sciences | 2020年 / 2卷
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Heavy metals; Acid mine drainage; Human health; Health risk assessment;
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The present study was conducted to investigate the heavy metal (Mn, Cu, Zn, As, and Cd) concentration of surface water in Smolnik creek in Slovakia. Furthermore, the study was aimed to determine the potential environmental health risk that the heavy metal concentration poses to the public. The values of the ecological potential index for the water in the study area were more than 600, reflecting a very high risk from the water body posed by these metals. Thus, this was also the reason to examine the impact of these heavy metals on the health of the population. Based on the heavy metal concentration, health risk assessments such as the chronic daily intake and hazard quotient (HQ) were calculated. Results showed that the daily intake of the heavy metals from all five samples taken from Smolnik creek was lower among adults than among children for two pathways of exposure. The non-carcinogenic hazard quotients of heavy metals in the studied area were higher among adults than among children. At all five sites, the HQ values for dermal exposure for adults were higher than 1. The HQ values for exposure through ingestion for adults and children were higher than 10 for almost all sites, indicating a disaster situation.
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