Open AccessAssessment of impact of accumulated environmental damage to the quality of soil, surface and groundwater, agricultural products resulted from the mining enterprise
Author(s) -
I.V. May,
Svetlana V. Kleyn,
Svetlana A. Vekovshinina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/315/6/062024
Subject(s) - agriculture , environmental impact assessment , environmental science , groundwater , environmental quality , hazardous waste , pollution , water quality , environmental engineering , environmental planning , surface water , groundwater pollution , environmental protection , waste management , engineering , geography , aquifer , ecology , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , biology
The study is devoted to the assessing the impact of environmental damage caused by mining enterprise to the quality of environment and agricultural products. It is shown that the waste storage of mining plant close to residential areas forms a complex of environmental and hygienic issues associated with pollution of air, surface and groundwater (including drinking water of private and public wells), soils with hazardous metals. The key problems include air pollution with suspended substances, lead, chrome and manganese – impurities typical for the mining plant wastes. Besides, increased level of some heavy metals in the water of city wells and the compounds in local food, a comprehensive combined effect of which might form a danger to public health, is also investigated. The current environmental situation requires the development of a set of environmental and ecological-hygienic measures aimed at improving of environmental quality and minimizing the negative impact environmental risk factors on people health.