Lead Pollution of Shooting Range Soils

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Totolo, Otlogetswe

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Publication Details

Author list: Sehube N, Kelebemang R, Totolo O, Laetsang M, Kamwi O, Dinake P

Publisher: BUREAU SCIENTIFIC PUBL

Place: PRETORIA

Publication year: 2017

Journal acronym: S AFR J CHEM-S-AFR T

Volume number: 70

Start page: 21

End page: 28

Number of pages: 8

ISSN: 0379-4350

eISSN: 1996-840X

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

A total of eight military shooting ranges were used for this study. Soil samples were collected at each of the eight shooting ranges at the berm, target line, 50 and 100 m from berm. In all of the shooting ranges investigated the highest total lead (Pb) concentrations were found in the berm soils. Elevated Pb concentrations of 38 406.87 mg kg(-1) were found in the berm soils of TAB shooting range. Most of the shooting range soils contained high levels of Pb in the range above 2000 mg kg(-1) far exceeding the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) critical value of 400 mg kg(-1) . The predominant weathering products in these shooting ranges were cerussite(PbCO3) and hydrocerussite (Pb-3(CO3)(2)(OH)(2)). The Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure (SPLP) Pb concentrations exceeded the USEPA 0.015 mg kg(-1) critical level of hazardous waste indicating possible contamination of surface and groundwater.

Keywords

ammunition, berm, Pb, shooting range., soil pollution

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