A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT STATUS OF SOIL POLLUTION IN SELECTED RURAL AREAS AND URBAN AREA OF DISTRICT KASUR.
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0022-06-12
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KINNAIRE COLLEGE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Abstract
The current knowledge of the soil pollution in Kasur an urban area of Pakistan is discussed with
special reference to heavy metals. Irregular increase in this urban community has started showing
some concerns in recent years that has become the major concern for the pedologist and is acting
as a barrier for agricultural activities in that area. The soil of urban area has been investigated and
it turn out to be a contaminated soil. This study will show the comparison between the soil quality
of an urban area and a rural area. The selected rural areas are from the vicinity of District Kasur.
As the urban soil has been contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, nickel, and
chromium such pollution in soil is the result of tanneries and rapid urbanization. The above mentioned metals are high in urban area as compared to rural areas. The more the far a rural area
is from urban the better is the quality of a soil. The samples will be collected from Kasur city and
four villages ( Maan , shaikpur Kuhna , Mahlem Kalan and sultan shahwala). The villages chosen
are approximately 15 to 20 km away from Kasur and falls in the vicinity of Ganda Singh boarder.
Through the sampling assessment variation in the metal content between these areas was
evaluated. The farmers of rural areas are unaware of the necessity of soils qualitative analysis
which is why this research is based on such comparison. The level of chromium was also tested
from the selected samples. The highest and alarming was found in city sample and the least was
found in the village sample. The purpose of this study and sampling was to highlight the fact that
urbanization may cause concentration of high-level metals pollutant in its adjoining rural areas.
The high concentration of heavy metals in rural soil was not found