Impact of military metallurgical plant wastes on the population's health risk
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Data
2016-03Autor
Pawełczyk, Adam
Božek, František
Grabas, Kazimierz
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This paper presents the results of water, soil and air analyses taken in the vicinity of a former ferrochromium
metallurgical plant. In the past, the area was used for the disposal of waste materials containing
smelter slag, dust and other waste products from the manufacture of ferrochromium alloys for
the army. Recently, production was abandoned and a project aimed at the liquidation of the dump has
been initiated. The project concentrates on the recovery of chromium remains and the utilization of the
leftover material as a road construction aggregate. Based on the analyses of ground water, soil and air, a
health risk caused by environmental pollution with chromium, especially with Cr(VI), was determined
for residential and occupational scenarios. It was found that the level of chromium emissions to the
environment constitutes a potential danger of toxic and carcinogenic cases in humans exposed to the
emission in the affected area. An increased level in the hazard quotient has been observed in the case of
occupational activities. As far as the mutagenic effects are concerned, the occupational inhalation
exposure was found to be very high, which may raise extreme concern about carcinogenic risk.
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