Heavy metal pollution characteristics and assessment of environmental quality and safety of facility agriculture soil in Shouguang

Abstract

Taking Shouguang Facility agriculture in Weifang City as the research object, heavy metals and other pollutants in new and old facility agriculture soil were investigated and analyzed from 2017 to 2019. The content of heavy metals in soil was analyzed, and the environmental quality of heavy metals was evaluated by single-factor pollution index method and Nemerow index method. The correlation between heavy metal content in surface soil and cultivation years, vertical distribution of heavy metal content in soil, frequency distribution of heavy metal in surface soil, and correlation between heavy metals in surface soil and soil nutrients were analyzed. The results showed that the average contents of the eight heavy metals were Cd 0.23 mg•kg−1, Hg 0.05 mg•kg−1, As 8.09 mg•kg−1, Pb 23.31 mg•kg−1, Cr 70.81 mg•kg−1, Cu 38.54 mg•kg−1, Ni 25.87 mg•kg−1 and Zn 147.52 mg•kg−1. Aside from Pb and Ni, the average content of all other heavy metals in the surface soil of facility agriculture was higher than the average of the control and the geochemical background level of soil in Weifang. Compared with the Environmental Quality Evaluation Standard for Farmland of Greenhouse Vegetables Production (HJ333-2006) and the Soil Environmental Quality Risk Control Standard for Soil Contamination of Agricultural Land (trial) (GB15618-2018), the average content of heavy metals met the standards, with Cd, Hg and Zn content in some samples exceeding the standards. Most surface soil environmental quality is clean or relatively clean, but there is also part of the soil has reached the level of mild or moderate pollution. The content of heavy metals in the soil of the old facility agriculture (cultivation years > 10) was higher than that of the new facility agriculture (cultivation years ≤ 10), and the content of heavy metals in the surface soil (0∼20cm) was higher than that in the deep soil. The quality distribution of heavy metals in the surface soil is affected by exogenous heavy metals, among which Hg and Cd have the largest skewness coefficient and are most affected by exogenous. There was significant positive correlation between heavy metals in surface soil and available phosphorus, hydrolytic nitrogen, available potassium and organic matter. The results indicated that the accumulation of heavy metals in soil was related to the application of organic fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer and compound fertilizer.