Study on Heavy Metal Contamination in High Water Table Coal Mining Subsidence Ponds That Use Different Resource Reutilization Methods
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study Area
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Samples and Preparation
3.2. Pollution Assessment Methods
3.2.1. Sediment Quality Guidelines
3.2.2. Nemerow Synthetic Pollution Index
3.2.3. Geoaccumulation Index
3.3. Statistical Analyses
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination
4.2. Heavy Metal Spatial Distribution
4.3. Assessment of Nemerow’s Synthetic Pollution Index
4.4. Geostatistical Analyses of Sediment Heavy Metals
4.5. Pearson’s Correlation, PCA, and HCA
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Psediment | Pwater | Pplant | P | |
---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | 0.55 | 0.84 | 12.56 | 4.65 |
A2 | 0.49 | 0.94 | 6.68 | 2.70 |
A3 | 0.51 | 0.77 | 9.85 | 3.71 |
A4 | 0.38 | 0.81 | 11.07 | 4.09 |
A5 | 0.56 | 0.48 | 3.81 | 1.62 |
A6 | 0.44 | 7.19 | 5.22 | 4.28 |
A7 | 0.30 | 1.03 | 3.75 | 1.69 |
A8 | 0.58 | 1.92 | 13.51 | 5.33 |
A9 | 0.52 | 0.96 | 10.54 | 4.01 |
B | 0.33 | 0.56 | 2.34 | 1.08 |
C | 0.39 | 1.11 | 4.57 | 2.02 |
D | 1.06 | 1.03 | 14.43 | 5.51 |
pH | AN | AP | AK | SOC | Cu | Zn | Cr | Cd | Hg | As | Pb | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pH | 1.00 | |||||||||||
AN | 0.51 | 1.00 | ||||||||||
AP | 0.28 | 0.34 | 1.00 | |||||||||
AK | −0.09 | 0.15 | −0.01 | 1.00 | ||||||||
SOC | 0.08 | −0.12 | −0.03 | 0.20 | 1.00 | |||||||
Cu | −0.02 | −0.35 | −0.26 | 0.08 | 0.36 | 1.00 | ||||||
Zn | 0.01 | −0.35 | −0.28 | −0.15 | 0.10 | 0.90 ** | 1.00 | |||||
Cr | −0.10 | 0.49 | 0.16 | 0.38 | −0.07 | −0.26 | −0.44 | 1.00 | ||||
Cd | −0.11 | −0.40 | −0.28 | −0.48 | 0.21 | 0.53 | 0.55 | −0.39 | 1.00 | |||
Hg | −0.07 | −0.03 | −0.20 | −0.42 | −0.10 | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.33 | 0.64 * | 1.00 | ||
As | 0.06 | 0.65 * | 0.43 | 0.36 | −0.21 | −0.30 | −0.38 | 0.91 ** | −0.50 | 0.22 | 1.00 | |
Pb | 0.24 | 0.69 * | 0.41 | −0.30 | −0.33 | −0.17 | −0.10 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.31 | 0.33 | 1.00 |
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Tan, M.; Wang, K.; Xu, Z.; Li, H.; Qu, J. Study on Heavy Metal Contamination in High Water Table Coal Mining Subsidence Ponds That Use Different Resource Reutilization Methods. Water 2020, 12, 3348. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123348
Tan M, Wang K, Xu Z, Li H, Qu J. Study on Heavy Metal Contamination in High Water Table Coal Mining Subsidence Ponds That Use Different Resource Reutilization Methods. Water. 2020; 12(12):3348. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123348
Chicago/Turabian StyleTan, Min, Kun Wang, Zhou Xu, Hanghe Li, and Junfeng Qu. 2020. "Study on Heavy Metal Contamination in High Water Table Coal Mining Subsidence Ponds That Use Different Resource Reutilization Methods" Water 12, no. 12: 3348. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123348