Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia
Pavement runoff is considered as one of the major non-point pollution sources of heavy metals from typical urban areas. Storm runoff from five highway toll plazas located within the Klang Valley is being collected to study the heavy metal content. This study reports the initial findings on the comm...
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| author | Al-Mamun, Abdullah Salleh, Md. Noor Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu Zainudin, Zaki Idris, Azni |
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| description | Pavement runoff is considered as one of the major non-point pollution sources of heavy metals from typical urban areas. Storm runoff from five highway toll plazas located within the Klang Valley is being collected to study the heavy metal content. This study reports the initial findings on the common metallic pollutants, namely Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn) Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr) from the selected highways in Malaysia. Event Mean Concentration (EMC) was calculated to compare the runoff quality with the National Water Quality Standards (NWQS) and industrial Effluent Quality Standards (EQA) of Malaysia. The average EMC values of the selected heavy metals are below the allowable limits stipulated in the NWQS and EQA. However, based on the initial results, the EMC of Cadmium (0.019 mg/L) and Lead (0.09 mg/L) in highway runoff from the Sg. Buloh Toll was higher than that of the Class II of the NWQS (0.010 mg/L and 0.05 mg/L, respectively). Low concentration of selected metals in the highway runoff could be attributed to less input from the vehicles or high rainfall amount, which causes dilution. |
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| spelling | iium-349362014-02-06T00:16:26Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/ Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia Al-Mamun, Abdullah Salleh, Md. Noor Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu Zainudin, Zaki Idris, Azni TD172 Environmental pollution Pavement runoff is considered as one of the major non-point pollution sources of heavy metals from typical urban areas. Storm runoff from five highway toll plazas located within the Klang Valley is being collected to study the heavy metal content. This study reports the initial findings on the common metallic pollutants, namely Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn) Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr) from the selected highways in Malaysia. Event Mean Concentration (EMC) was calculated to compare the runoff quality with the National Water Quality Standards (NWQS) and industrial Effluent Quality Standards (EQA) of Malaysia. The average EMC values of the selected heavy metals are below the allowable limits stipulated in the NWQS and EQA. However, based on the initial results, the EMC of Cadmium (0.019 mg/L) and Lead (0.09 mg/L) in highway runoff from the Sg. Buloh Toll was higher than that of the Class II of the NWQS (0.010 mg/L and 0.05 mg/L, respectively). Low concentration of selected metals in the highway runoff could be attributed to less input from the vehicles or high rainfall amount, which causes dilution. 2013-12-27 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/1/Paper_601-Mamun.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/4/601-IAL_Full_Paper.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/5/Certificate.pdf Al-Mamun, Abdullah and Salleh, Md. Noor and Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu and Zainudin, Zaki and Idris, Azni (2013) Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia. In: 4th Global Engineering, Science and Technology Conference, 27-28 December, 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
| spellingShingle | TD172 Environmental pollution Al-Mamun, Abdullah Salleh, Md. Noor Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu Zainudin, Zaki Idris, Azni Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title | Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title_full | Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title_short | Heavy metal contents in highway runoff in Malaysia |
| title_sort | heavy metal contents in highway runoff in malaysia |
| topic | TD172 Environmental pollution |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/1/Paper_601-Mamun.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/4/601-IAL_Full_Paper.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/34936/5/Certificate.pdf |