Heavy Metals Pollution in Copsa Mica
Transylvania University
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Dumitriu Monica
Business Administration
1st Year – Group 8801
Coordinating professor:Ruxandra Albu
2011
COPSA MICA AREA AND HEAVY METALS POLLUTION
ABSTRACT
The reason for chosing to study Copsa Mica area is because this area is very close to my home town Medias, and Copsa Mica, alongside Baia Mare and Zlatna are known as the representative areas for nonferrous metallurgy in Romania. As a result of this almost 70 years old industrial activity, the Copsa Mica area is strongly polluted with heavy metals like: Cd, Pb, and Zn. The present paper presents some aspects impact of metals on environment and human health. There are presented concentration data about 13 metals (including heavy metals) in the dump and on the premises of SOMETRA SA measured with X-ray fluorescence technique, and also about the biomarkers of exposure and effect upon children exposed to lead.
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1. INTRODUCTION
At the present time of society development level, the industry has became the most important pollutant, affecting large geographic areas. Urbanization is most often associated with an economic, productive, development that can lead to major benefit for the health and environment.In some countries, Romania is included, the lack of an adequate infrastructure and services for controlling the pollution, environmental and health related problems, all lead to the situation in which costs related to water supply, health services, hygiene, garbage collection both for domestic and for industrial source are much higher and, in fact transferred in ht environment and health budget. Recently, an increase in the people’s awareness was noticed regarding the risk of exposures from the physical and chemical agents from the environment that can harm the health of the people exposed.In the Copsa Mica area, the non-ferrous industry started here in 1939 a modest plant
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Dumitriu Monica
Business Administration
1st Year – Group 8801
Coordinating professor:Ruxandra Albu
2011
COPSA MICA AREA AND HEAVY METALS POLLUTION
ABSTRACT
The reason for chosing to study Copsa Mica area is because this area is very close to my home town Medias, and Copsa Mica, alongside Baia Mare and Zlatna are known as the representative areas for nonferrous metallurgy in Romania. As a result of this almost 70 years old industrial activity, the Copsa Mica area is strongly polluted with heavy metals like: Cd, Pb, and Zn. The present paper presents some aspects impact of metals on environment and human health. There are presented concentration data about 13 metals (including heavy metals) in the dump and on the premises of SOMETRA SA measured with X-ray fluorescence technique, and also about the biomarkers of exposure and effect upon children exposed to lead.
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1. INTRODUCTION
At the present time of society development level, the industry has became the most important pollutant, affecting large geographic areas. Urbanization is most often associated with an economic, productive, development that can lead to major benefit for the health and environment.In some countries, Romania is included, the lack of an adequate infrastructure and services for controlling the pollution, environmental and health related problems, all lead to the situation in which costs related to water supply, health services, hygiene, garbage collection both for domestic and for industrial source are much higher and, in fact transferred in ht environment and health budget. Recently, an increase in the people’s awareness was noticed regarding the risk of exposures from the physical and chemical agents from the environment that can harm the health of the people exposed.In the Copsa Mica area, the non-ferrous industry started here in 1939 a modest plant
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