Title
Vegetable contamination by heavy metal contained in effluents from wastewater plant in the totora community, Ayacucho – Peru
Date Issued
01 July 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Alpha Publishers
Abstract
The experimental research seeks to determine the incidence generated by heavy metal contamination that affects vegetables such as Radish, Spinach, and Lettuce in the Community of Totora located in the department of Ayacucho in Peru. The methodology used was the elaboration of the plot matrix, in a set of complete random blocks, in a 2Fx3E factorial matrix, watered by the wastewater effluents and the water supply from the supply pipes. The results of heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, and Cr were found in the vegetables that were sprayed with sewage; the concentration of Cd in the Spinach exceeded the maximum permissible limits MPL; in Lettuce, it was slightly below; with Radish, found below. Likewise, with the use of wastewater in Lettuce, Spinach, and Radishes, the absorption of Cr exceeded the limit. In the case of the vegetables under study irrigated with water of normal use, the absorption of Pb exceeded the limits.
Start page
3484
End page
3497
Volume
10
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Agronomía
Horticultura, Viticultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85090631394
Source
Journal of Green Engineering
ISSN of the container
19044720
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus