Open AccessTransport and storage of heavy metals in the Sava river basin in Serbia
Author(s) -
Dubravka Vuković,
J Srboljub Stankovic,
Ž. Vuković,
Ksenija Janković
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the serbian chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1820-7421
pISSN - 0352-5139
DOI - 10.2298/jsc130128085v
Subject(s) - sedimentation , heavy metals , sediment , environmental science , pollutant , hydrology (agriculture) , suspension (topology) , spring (device) , drainage basin , environmental chemistry , geology , chemistry , geomorphology , geography , geotechnical engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , organic chemistry , cartography , homotopy , pure mathematics , engineering
Selected heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd) in Sava River water and sediment in Serbia were investigated on three locations in the vicinity of industrial and urban settlements (Šabac, Obrenovac, Beograd) during the period spring 2007-autumn 2011. The fluxes of heavy metals from river water to sediment due to sedimentation and heavy metal re-suspension fluxes due to sediment re-suspension at a high flow were determined, by applying the model for assessment of the transport the pollutants through rivers. Those fluxes were attributed mainly to natural processes. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 43009