PMID: 8593084Feb 1, 1996Paper

Monitoring lead pollution near a storage battery recycling plant in Taiwan, Republic of China

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
C Y YehB C Han

Abstract

This study presents the distribution of blood lead levels and lead in various environmental samples (water, sediments, soils, and air) near the Shing-Yie storage battery recycling plant in Taiwan before (July 1990 to June 1991) and after (July 1992 to June 1993) amelioration. Before amelioration, the average blood lead levels in the neighborhood of the plant were in the range of 10.55 +/- 5.7 to 12.28 +/- 7.9 micrograms/dl. After amelioration, relatively lower average concentrations of blood lead (range 8.35 +/- 3.0 to 9.13 +/- 2.5 micrograms/dl) were generally found; however, these averages were still higher than that (7.79 +/- 3.5 micrograms/dl) from other lead-unpolluted areas of Taiwan. An exceedingly high geometric mean (GM) lead concentration (128 micrograms/L) was found in the downstream river water of the Tawulum River passing by the plant. The concentrations of lead (GM = 372 and 418 micrograms/g) in the downstream river sediments were higher than those (GM = 123 and 158 micrograms/g) in the upstream river sediments before and after amelioration, respectively. Furthermore, lead species in river sediments were analyzed by a sequential leaching technique. The sum of phases I, II, and III accounted for 83.7% of total lead...Continue Reading

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