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Boraboy Lake from Amasya Turkey: natural radioactivity and heavy metal content in water, sediment, and soil

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This study presents the results of the heavy metals and natural radioactivity for evaluation of the environmental pollution of Boraboy Lake as was agriculture and touristic activities area. The aim of the study is to determine the environmental and health effects of natural radioactivity levels, radiological hazards, heavy metal concentrations, and the relationship between metal concentration and some physicochemical properties (pH, conductivity, and saturation) in Boraboy Lake water, soil, and sediment. For this reason, radioactivity concentration (40K, 226Ra, and 232Th), radium equivalent activities (Raeq), absorbed dose rate (ADR), annual effective dose rate (AEDR), radiation hazard indexes (Hin, Hex), and excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) have been investigated in the water, soil, and sediment samples in the Boraboy Lake in Amasya, Turkey. Also, contents and concentrations of heavy metals (Cu, Cd, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, Cr, and Al) have been determined. All the health hazard index results have been found the world average values reported by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) acceptable limits. The water, sediment, and soil results from the heavy metals are also found to be within limits of tolerance.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Central Research Laboratory Group of Amasya University for supporting the heavy metal analysis. The authors are grateful to the editors and reviewers whose comments were appreciated and have significantly contributed to this paper.

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This work was supported by the Amasya University Scientific Research Coordination Project No FMB-BAP 17–0261.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Arts, Amasya University, 05000, Amasya, Turkey

    Betül Cetin

  2. Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Health Services Vocational School, Amasya University, 05000, Amasya, Turkey

    Betül Canımkurbey

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Arts, Amasya University, 05000, Amasya, Turkey

    Melek Gül

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Cetin, B., Canımkurbey, B. & Gül, M. Boraboy Lake from Amasya Turkey: natural radioactivity and heavy metal content in water, sediment, and soil. Arab J Geosci 15, 513 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-09732-w

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