Assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediment at the newly established tannery industrial Estate in Bangladesh: A case study

This research work was focused to evaluate the concentration of heavy metals (i.e., Cr, Pb, Mn, Cu and Fe) in sediment samples collected from the Dhaleshwari River near the area of a newly established tannery industrial estate, Savar, Bangladesh. The heavy metals in sediment samples were ascertained by the atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). This study revealed that the metal concentration for chromium (Cr), lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu) and iron (Fe) were found to be 14.8–748 (186 ± 241) mg/kg, 2.38–21.1 (8.78 ± 6.15) mg/kg, 1.59–6.29 (3.12 ± 1.38) mg/kg, 0.36–4.75 (1.76 ± 1.47) mg/kg and 3.87–154 (42.7 ± 49.1) mg/kg (dry wt) respectively. The concentration of heavy metals in sediment samples descends with the following order: Cr >…