Features of pollution of plowlands by heavy metals from motorways

Abstract

The purpose. To determine features of contamination of plowlands with pollutants – lead, manganese and cadmium from motorways. Methods. Analysis of content of heavy metals is made using method of ICP-MS on emissive mass analyzer Agilent 7700x. Results. With increase of distance from polluter (motorway Kiev-Odessa) the density of products of incineration of car fuel in ground layer of air and their accumulation in arable layer of soil drops. Conclusions. The highest levels of accumulation of heavy metals in soil have been fixed within the distance of 5 m of the road. At the distances over 1280 m from the motorway the level of accumulation of lead drops in 1,67 times, manganese – 1,07, cadmium – in 40 times.