Evaluation of Lead Concentration on Agriculture Surface Soil around the Former Battery Production, Berat, Albania

A study was performed to investigate the distribution of lead concentration on the surface soils samples at a distance 80-2000 m around the former Factory Production of Batteries to Berat, Albania. There were two goals of this study: to assessment of the environmental and impact of the industrial lead waste in the surface soil around the former Factory of Battery Production; and comparison the concentration of lead in the planted areas where the inhabitants cultivate agricultural products with untreated surface soil. To achieve the goals of the work, initially are selected 33 surface sampling points of soil. 20 of them represent the untreated soils and other 13 represent soil samples where the plants are cultivated. All the representative soil samples were analyzing using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry for their lead content, in Institute of Applied Nuclear Physics, University of Tirana, Albania. From results obtained the fraction of lead in surface soil samples ranged from 78 mg/kg to 24207 mg/kg and average concentration of lead was 1821mg/kg. Concentration of lead in uncultivated soil samples was found higher than the concentration of lead in cultivated surface soil samples, soils which have been worked for cultivated crops. The fraction of lead in soil samples that are collected at different points are compared with the MCL specified by the Directive 86/278/EEC. Also, we have calculated factor of Hazardous Quoted for each sampling point