Health Risk Assessments and Microbial Community Analyses of Groundwater from a Heavy Metal-Contaminated Site in Hezhou City, Southwest China.

ABSTRACT: In industrial site groundwater, heavy metal pollution is relatively common, causing great harm to the surrounding environment and human health. To explore the relationships between the heavy metal concentration, health risks and microbial community distribution, the groundwater from a polluted site at an abandoned processing plant in Hezhou City, China, is taken as the research object. A health risk assessment model recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) is used for the evaluation, and high-throughput sequencing technology is used to analyze the characteristics of the microbial community in the groundwater. The results show that the heavy metal pollution levels of five monitoring wells are different. The monitoring well labelled HLJ2 is polluted by Cu, Mn

SUBMITTER: Xu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9819039 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature