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http://dx.doi.org/10.14481/jkges.2015.16.1.55

Occurrence of Arsenic, Strontium, and Selenium in Drinking Water in Kyungpook Province, Korea, in Relation to Geologic Formations  

Lee, Heageun (GyeongSangBuk-Do Goverment Public Institute of Health & Environment)
Cha, Sangdeok (GyeongSangBuk-Do Goverment Public Institute of Health & Environment)
Choi, Jeonhak (Department of Environment Engineering, Catholic University of Pusan)
Kim, Younghun (Department of Environmental Engineering, Andong National University)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.16, no.1, 2015 , pp. 55-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the water supply system has been installed over the country, the management of drinking water could be easier and controlled by experts. This helps to supply safe water to public. However, in rural area, small scale water treatment systems or groundwater haves been used as drinking water supplier. The drinking water including groundwater contains various contaminants. Private or small scale water treatment system can be contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, selenium and strontium which are usually originated from natural source. Arsenic, selenium and strontium have been determined from the goundwater, small scale water treatment system in the Kyungpook area. The results have been compared with the Korean and international standards. The results were analyzed on the geological characteristics of the area. Among the total of 1,412 samples, 76 samples showed higher concentration of arsenic than WHO guideline and the Korean drinking water standard. Total 4 samples had higher contents of selenium than WHO guideline which was $10{\mu}g/L$. In the analysis of geological characteristics, arsenic was highly released from a few area and which are in order of biotite granodiorite > biotite granite > daegu formation. Selenium has been highly released from biotite granite > black shale > diluvium.
Keywords
Selenium; Arsenic; Strontium; Drinking water; Geological; Groundwater;
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