Geographical distribution of heavy metal pollution in Wasit Governorate due to war remnants

Abstract

This research is summarized in studying the concept of heavy metal pollution and its impact on the environmental characteristics in Wasit Governorate.  Its spread in Wasit governorate in all districts of the governorate that were subjected to bombing and war remnants, by identifying a group of sites and taking soil samples from them and working on grinding, filtering and digesting them to be a solution that can be inferred on the values   of heavy elements in where the samples were collected by (25) sites.  Using the (GIS) program to locate the samples. It was found through the results of the statistical analysis that the lower and upper limits of soil contamination with iron reached (69) and (4269) respectively, while the average pollution rates according to the data of the studied sample amounted to (2169).  Soil with lead reached the highest level in the study area at site S2 (47.73). The reason for the high element of lead in the mentioned sites is due to the diversity of its remnants of war and the CBU-type multi-impact cluster bomb-  The 87/B is the standard type used by the United States in aerial bombing operations.  Each bomb weighs 340 kilograms and carries LU-97/B 202 sub-cluster bombs. Many types of combat aircraft can drop them above the upper limit, which is estimated.  While the lowest percentage of lead contamination was recorded in site K4 (2,981), and the highest level of copper contamination was in site K5 (70.35).  Including mines ((MABS, porgal and RBG.7). The areas below the midline can be counted as low pollution areas, the lowest limit in site H3 ((4.49) areas and the highest limit was recorded at site K5 (15.56635) and the reason for its height was due to its contents  From war remnants, as represented by (M67 bomb, BLU-10 bomb) and personal mines (TM_57 and (VS-2.2). In general, the percentages of cadmium increased in the soil of sites contaminated with military remnants in three sites. The lowest percentage of cadmium in the soil was recorded in  Location A3 ( 0.0724