caa a22 4500 477094368 CHVBK 20180405111523.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01771240 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01771240 Analysis of lead in soils adjacent to an interstate highway in Tampa, Florida [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Hafen, Robert Brinkmann] In order to assess the amount and distribution of lead pollution in soils adjacent to a major interstate highway serving the city of Tampa, Florida, a total of 224 samples were collected from 32 transects perpendicular to the roadway. The lead content was measured using atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The highest levels of lead were found at distances of 81, 243, and 729 cm from the road. The results show that there is a weak negative correlation between soil lead and the distance from the roadside, as well as with traffic density. The weakness of the relationship is a result of confounding variables such as turbulence and other microclimatic factors, downslope movement of soils overtime, and human action such as construction and highway landscaping. Nevertheless, over one-third of the samples collected in the study area contain more than 500 μg g−1 lead, levels considered to be hazardous by the United States Centers for Disease Control and the Environmental Protection Agency. Chapman & Hall, 1996 Lead nationallicence ingestion nationallicence particulates nationallicence soils nationallicence hazardous waste nationallicence transect nationallicence traffic density nationallicence Hafen Mark Department of Marine Science, MSL 145, University of South Florida, 140 7th Avenue South, 33701-5016, St. Petersburg, FL, USA aut Brinkmann Robert Department of Geography, SOC 107, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, 33620-8100, Tampa, Florida, USA aut Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/4(1996-12-01), 171-179 0269-4042 18:4<171 1996 18 10653 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01771240 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01771240 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hafen Mark Department of Marine Science, MSL 145, University of South Florida, 140 7th Avenue South, 33701-5016, St. Petersburg, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brinkmann Robert Department of Geography, SOC 107, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, 33620-8100, Tampa, Florida, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/4(1996-12-01), 171-179 0269-4042 18:4<171 1996 18 10653 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer