Geochemical characteristics for the soil deposits within the municipal waste disposal areas by the environment study results

• Date: 2020
• Main Authors: Trofymchuk, Oleksandr M., Kuraeva, Iryna V., Azimov, Oleksandr T., Karmazinenko, Sergii P., Zlobina, Kateryna S.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture 2020
• Subjects: Landfill; solid waste; heavy metals; soil; geochemical analysis
• Online Access: https://es-journal.in.ua/article/view/213137
• Journal Title: Environmental safety and natural resources

As a result of the analytical research and result of the previous stages of study it was found the significant contamination of the soil layer by the heavy metals (HMs) within the Landfill area No 5 for the municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal and the surrounding areas. It was revealed also the negative its effect on the contents of these pollutants in the soil of adjacent buffer zone, which is under the influence of north-eastern, northern, and north-western parts of the Landfill. This is a result of 34 years of the operation of the MSW disposal facility, when there were operating troubles. That caused by the breach of operating procedures of the covering the garbage storages by the isolating layers of dirt, intermittent work of the leachate treatment system, capacity exceeded, etc. Therefore, the soils within the Landfill’s boundaries and also in the buffer its zone have been contaminated by the different toxic substances, in particular by the HMs. So, soil deposits of the Landfill have got the maximum exceed of background contents for cooper, lead, nickel, and tin by from several to ten times, at the same time, beyond its contour – by 2–3 times. The negative changes of physical-chemical properties of soils of the humus horizon is revealed by the comparison with the proper indications for the soil samples collected in the sites adjacent to the Landfill and directly on its territory. The buffer coefficient of soil of this horizon (Cb) is twice as lower for the technogenic polluted soils within the MSW disposal facility than for the background sites for their is equal to the value of Cb=55. The contents of mobile forms for the HMs in the soil formations of the Landfill No 5 in the comparison with the background values increase 2 times for cooper and zinc, as well 8 times for lead. It is the content of the mobile forms that affects the migration of the HMs in the trophic chain “soil – solution – biota”.