African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Arsenic levels in groundwater aquifer of the Neoplanta source area

Dragica Stojiljković1, Gordana Šekularac2*, Miodrag Jelić3, Milena Djurić4, Snežana Komatina-Petrović5 and Srećko Trifunović6
  1Department of Water Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia. 2Department of Soil and Land Reclamation, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Kragujevac, ÄŒačak, Serbia. 3Department of Agrochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Priština-Kosovska Mitrovica, Lešak, Serbia. 4Department of Organic Chemistry and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Kragujevac, ÄŒačak, Serbia. 5Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Union-Nikola Tesla University, Belgrade, Serbia. 6Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
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  •  Published: 27 November 2012

Abstract

 

As part of a survey on the groundwater aquifer at the Neoplanta source site, standard laboratory analysis of water quality and an electromagnetic geophysical method were used for long-term quantitative and qualitative monitoring of arsenic levels. This study presents only the results of research conducted in the Neoplanta-Koteksprodukt zone for 2005 and 2008 for the purpose of comparison of water quality at the aquifer. Varying levels of arsenic in both industrial and sanitary waters were determined, indicating water pollution with arsenic compounds. The horizontal electromagnetic prospecting method was used to define the extent of the arsenic-polluted zone and pollution direction. Vertical prospecting in the polluted zone helped identify the depth and interval of arsenic infiltration into both soil and water.  

 

Key words: Water source area, arsenic content, electromagnetic method, RADIJAN 2001.

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