ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Seasonal Variation of Some Trace Element
and Heavy Metal Concentrations
in a Turkish Stream
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Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences,
Bursa Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey
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Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey
Submission date: 2018-02-16
Final revision date: 2018-04-30
Acceptance date: 2018-12-15
Online publication date: 2019-09-18
Publication date: 2019-12-09
Corresponding author
Hakan Çelik
Uludag University Agricultural Faculty Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(1):589-600
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Nilüfer stream in Bursa, Turkey, is important for being a huge resource for irrigation and also the
wastewater discharge point of many treatment plants. There are lots of factories dealing with textile and
food industries and also municipal waste treatment facilities that directly discharge their wastewaters
into the stream and may lead to pollution. In this research, we aimed to determine the seasonal variation
of some trace element and heavy metal concentrations of Nilüfer stream and the treatment plants. Water
samples were taken from the treatment plants and from the stream that the treatment plants discharged
to at four different periods during August 2013 to May 2014. Discharges from the treatment plants
affected the quality of the stream negatively (p<0.01) and varied depending on the sampling periods and
also depending on the processed products at the factories and also their discharges from the treatment
plants. Although the Zn, Al, Ni, Pb, and Co concentrations of the water samples were found to be under
the limits of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) and Treated Water (TW), concentrations of especially Fe, Cu, Mn, Cd and Cr
were found to be over the limitations of TW.