Author(s)

Dhananjay Sahu¹, Shobhana Ramteke², Nohar Singh Dahariya², Bharat Lal Sahu², Khageshwar Singh Patel^2*, Laurent Matini³, Jose Nicolas⁴, Eduardo Yubero⁴, Jan Hoinkis⁵

¹JK Laxmi Cement, Ahiwara, Durg, CG, India.
²School of Studies in Chemistry/Environmental Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India.
³Department of Exact Sciences, E.N.S., Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Congo.
⁴Atmospheric Pollution Laboratory, Applied Physics Department, Miguel Hernandez University, Elche, Spain.
⁵Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany.

The road dusts (RD) are fugitive in nature causing potential health hazards to people living in highways. They are generated from different sources on the roads and being a valuable archive of environmental information. In the present work, contamination assessment of 18 heavy metals and ions in road dusts of the country are described. Techniques i.e. ion selective, ion chromatography and atomic absorption spectrophotometers were used for analysis of the ions and metals. The content of F^-, Cl^-, , , , Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, As, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb and Hg in the road dusts was ranged from 75 - 895, 276 - 12718, 48 - 1423, 243 - 10,580, 11 - 539, 290 - 46,484, 110 - 7716, 84 - 1771, 595 - 15,955, 24 - 42, 164 - 526, 1711 - 5218, 63,850 - 144,835, 47 - 62, 81 - 720, 166 - 450, 92 - 295 and 0.05 - 0.12 mg/kg with mean value of 224 ± 43, 3734 ± 895, 592 ± 895, 2859 ± 662, 143 ± 29, 4826 ± 2049, 1565 ± 411, 837 ± 121, 8545 ± 1288, 31 ± 4, 246 ± 82, 3002 ± 851, 91,331 ± 18,587, 54 ± 4, 206 ± 145, 241 ± 64, 171 ± 42 and 0.08 ± 0.02 mg/kg, respectively (at 95% probability). The enrichment, variation, correlation and sources of the contaminants are discussed.

Ions, Heavy Metals, Sources, Road Dust

Sahu, D. , Ramteke, S. , Dahariya, N. , Sahu, B. , Patel, K. , Matini, L. , Nicolas, J. , Yubero, E. and Hoinkis, J. (2016) Assessment of Road Dust Contamination in India. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 6, 77-88. doi: 10.4236/acs.2016.61006.