Contamination Of Heavy Metals In The Rice Paddy Soils At Tanjung Morawa B Village, Tanjung Morawa Subdistrict, Distirct Of Deli (Pencemaran Logam Berat pada Tanah Sawah di Desa Tanjung Morawa-B Kecamatan Tanjung Morawa Kabupaten Deli Serdang)

CONTAMINATION OF HEAVY METALS IN THE RICE PADDY SOILS AT TANJUNG MORAWA B VILLAGE, TANJUNG MORAWA
SUBDISTRICT, DISTIRCT OF DELI
(Pencemaran Logam Berat pada Tanah Sawah di Desa Tanjung Morawa-B Kecamatan Tanjung Morawa Kabupaten Deli Serdang)
Oleh : Jamilah, Mukhlis and Yovita S.
         
FAKULTAS PERTANIAN UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2011
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Contamination of Heavy Metals of Rice Paddy Soils of Tanjung Morawa B Village, Tanjung Morawa Subdistrict, District of Deli Serdang
(Pencemaran Logam Berat pada Tanah Sawah di Desa Tanjung Morawa-B Kecamatan Tanjung Morawa Kabupaten Deli Serdang)
Oleh : Jamilah*, Mukhlis* and Yovita S.**
Email : jamilah_tnh@yahoo.co.id *) Lecturers at Soil Science Department Faculty of Agriculture University of Sumatera
Utara and **) Graduate Student of Soil Science Department
ABSTRACT
Contamination of soils is increases with the progress of industrial technology surrounding citizenship suttlement and agricultural area nowdays. Industrial wastes contain various kinds of heavy metals as one of the reason caused soil contamination. Based on this case, this study had an objective to evaluate the level of rice paddy soil contamination caused by some heavy metals e.g. : Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn. This research was conducted at Tanjung Morawa B village, subdistrict of Tanjung Morawa, district of Deli Serdang and at the Research and Technology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan. Method used was Grid survey method at the level semi-detailed (observation density of 1 sample each 25 ha) in order to know the level of soil contaminatio ns caused by heavy metals e.g. : Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn. This research resulted a map of 1: 50.000 in scale.
The results of this study showed that the conten of heavy metals such as Cd, Cu and Zn in rice paddy soils above limit threshold that permitted and Pb was still below the threshold of the maximum allowed in the ground. In irrigation water, the content of heavy metals Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn was above the maximum threshold for irrigation water by the regulation of Indonesian Goverment based on PP No. 82 year 2001.
Keywords: contamination, rice paddy soil, heavy metals
Introduction
Soil contamination was a condition where chemical materials change the natural soil environment (Veegha, 2008). Darmono (2001) said that there were 2 (two) main resources of soil contamination, e.g. leak of organic chemical material and the storage of chemical materials keep in soils, and collecting of industrial waste put in large reservoir close to ground water.
Industrial waste that could cause contamination are: factories, small industry, home industry, in the form of solid and liquid. 1. Solid industrial wastes are the industrial waste in the form of solid, muds, pulp, etc. Those

waste materials for example come from sugar cane processing, pulp, plywood, fruits processing, meat and fish processing, etc.
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2. Liquid industrial waste resulted from production process, for example the waste metal industrial processing and other chemical industry. Copper, plumbum, silver, khrom, arsen and boron are the results of metal covering industrial processing. (Sadrach, 2008).
Waste materials wich contaminate environment would couse harmful to human directly or indirectly. Directly harmful is if the contamination directly influence the healthiness of humans. Indirectly harmful is that if that contamintion caused damaged environment so the potensial of environment to support human life declined. That condition could be more dangerous if the supporting capability don’nt be able to support human needs and this would damage human life. For example is the decrease soil fertility and disturb agricultural sector and decrease food production and healthy drinking water resources would be difficult to find and people would have lack of water for their daily need everyday (Sunu, 2001).
Basically, contamination of agricultural soil caused by heavy metals depend upon: 1). Quantity of metal presence in bed rock. 2). fertilizer added into the soils. 3). metal deposits falling down from atmosphere into the soils, and 4). Take up by plants three harvest or penetrate to the deeper soil (Darmono, 2001).
This heavy metal contamination caused various problems, e.g. : 1. related to esthetic (taste alteration, colour and taste of water). 2. dangerous for plants and animals. 3. dangerous for human health. 4. caused damage in ecosystem. Some of heavy metal are essensial to water organism for their growth and development, e.g. : in forming of haemosianin in blood system and enzymatic of biota.
Sudarmaji, et al (2008) reported that among all heavy metals, Hg is the most poisonous compared to other heavy metals, then followed by Cd, Ag, Ni, Pb, As, Ccr, Sn, Zn.
The content of metals in soils influences on the content of metal in plants, except it interacts among other metals to inhibit the metals of plants. The accumulation in plants not only depends on the content of metals in soils, but also depends upon the chemical component of soils, kind of metals, soil pH, and plant species (Darmono 1995).
The supplier of heavy metals in agricultural soil are agrochemistry (fertilizers and pesticides), exhaust fumes, fuel, organic fertilizer, home waste materials, industry, and mining (Alloway, 1995).
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Table 1. Range of Heavy Metals as Pollutans in Soils and Plants.

Component

Range of Heavy Metal Content


Soils
As 0,1-40 B 2-100 F 30-300 Cd 0,1-7 Mn 100-4000 Ni 10-1000 Zn 10-300 Cu 2-100 Pb 2-200 Source: Soepardi, 1983 in Brachia, 2009.

Plants ppm
0,1-5 30-75 2-20 0,2-0,8 15-200
1 15-200
4-15 0,1-10

Waste materials which usually contain heavy metals are chemistry factories, electricity and electronics, metals and electroplating, skins, methals, paint material and dye materials, Solid waste of settlement also contains heavy metals (Yong, et al, 1992). Pesticide also contibute heavy metals into soils. Pesticide uptake by plants depends on its pesticide dosage, soil kinds, and the cability of plants in absorbing that pesticides (Charlena, 2004).
Based on general tasks statistics (2005) stated that Tanjung Morawa B village had about 620 ha of land where about 120 ha as rice paddy soils and the other 500 ha not rice paddy soil (settlements and industries). Industrial area of Tanjung Morawa is enough to represent an area which that has agriculture area and settlement directly surrounded by industries. Base on above case, writer is interested to evaluate the level of irrigation water contamination and rice paddy soils by heavy metals in area of Tanjung Morawa.

Materials and Methods
This research was conducted in Tanjung Morawa-B village, Tanjung Morawa subdistrict, district of Deli Serdang and laboratory of research technology, faculty of agriculture Universitas Sumatera Utara from April 2009 until November 2009. Materials used in this research were topography map in the scale 1: 50.000, map of Tanjung MorawaB village in the scale 1: 5.000, soil and water samples for analysis purposes and chemicals. Equipment used in this research were soil drill, GPS (global possition system), and others.
Method used was grid survey method with the semi detail survey level (observation density was 1 sample in 25 ha) in order to know the rate of soil contamination caused by heavy metals, e.g. Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn. And from this survey, it resulted a map which has
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scale of 1: 50.000. Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn were measured using with HNO3 and HCL extraction method.

Results and Discussions

Base on the soil and water analysis (Table 2) showed that the concentration of heavy metals of Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn and pH was varied. This indicated that the rate of contamination was also varied. The result of analysis was shown at Table 2.

Table 2. Result of Analysis of Heavy metal Consentration and pH of Rice Paddy Soils

soil sample
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Soil pH3
5,37A 4,68 A 5,41 A 5,30 A 4,89 A 4,58 A 4,27VA 3,99 VA

Concentration of heavy metal in soil (ppm)

Pb1 Cd1 Cu2 Zn2

16,77 L

22,96 H

8,01TL


33,65 L

15,90 L

23,66 H

49,40 M

93,29 M

19,17 L

27,26 H

68,57 M

114,67 M

22,55 L


14,36 H

190,77 H

292,43 H

30,69 L

13,84 H

114,77 H

92,09 M

27,98 L

21,17 H

77,83 H


103,95 M

21,05 L

28,19 H

142,87 H

80,49 M

31,26 L

25,40 H

150,77 H

210,62 M

TL = too low, L = Low, M = moderate, H = High, A= acid, VA = very acid


1. Source : Ministry of State for population and Environment of Indonesia, and Dalhaosie University Canada (1992)
2. Source : Rosmarkam dan Yuwono, 2002 3. Source: Balai Penelitian Tanah, 2005

Table 3. Result of Analysis of Heavy Metals Concentration and pH of Irrigation Water

Irrigation Water pH Concentration of Heavy Metals in Irrigation Water

Water Sample

(ppm)*

Pb Cd Cu Zn

A

5,93

3,512+

1,481+


1,080+

1,900-

B

5,42

3,037+

1,129+

1,526+

0,285-

C

6,05


2,075+

1,315+

0,702+

2,126+

D

5,90

3,099+

1,423+

1,319+

2,282+


Source : PP No. 82 Year 2001

+ = above threshold limit, - = under threshold limit

The result of water irrigation analysis had different criteria to that soil analysis. It showed that concentration of heavy metals of Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn was above critical threshold limit (Class IV). This was caused by the mixing of irrigation water with wastes from factories surrounding the area of Tanjung Morawa B village.

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Table 4. Critical Limit of Heavy Metals in Soil and Water

Heavy Metals

Soils 1)

Water2)

(ppm)


(ppm)

Pb 100 1,0

Cd 0,50 0,01

Cu 60-125 0,2

Zn 70 2,0

1) Ministry of State for population and Environment of Indonesia, and Dalhaosie

University Canada (1992)

2) PP No. 82 Thn. 2001

The total content of Pb in rice paddy soil in the range of contamination of soils (Table 1) was low, thus was as reported by Nriagu (1978) that the total of Pb content in agricultural soils was in the range of 2-200 ppm. Figured 1 showed that all sample rice paddy soil that contain heavy metal Pb under critical threshold limit.

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PETA TINGKAT PENC EMARAN Pb

             PADA TANAH SAWAH

                DI DESA TANJUNG MORAWA B

                   KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG

N
 W E S
      200 0 200400600 Meters

KETERANG  A  N  : 
Jalan Sungai
   Pemukiman  Rendah
Sedang Tinggi
          Sudah Bukan Sawah            Desa Tj Morawa B

        DEPARTEMEN ILMU TANAH        FAKULTAS PERTANIAN          UNIVERSITAS SUMATERAUTARA    MEDAN
2009

Figure 1. Map of Contamination Rate of Pb in Rice Paddy Soil in Tanjung Morawa B Village Tanjung Morawa Subdistric, District of Deli Serdang
The content of cadmium in soil based on the analysis showed a high value as a contaminant of soil. Sudarmaji, et al (2008) reported the content of natural cadmium in earth crust just between 0,1-0,5 ppm, while in agricultural soils Sutanto (2002) as high as 3 ppm. Table 2 showed that content of Cd had over of maximum limit in soils that’s why it was classified in high criteria.

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This contamination was not fully caused by industries, people also support the contamination by fertilization and the application of pesticides. In order to increase agricultural production, the application of fertilizers could not be stop. Farmers in this region used agricultural saprodies in the hope of increasing their agricultural production without considering their effects to plants and environment. This was as reported by Charlena (2004) that the use of fertilizers a long time with high dosages could increase the availability of Pb and Cd in soils thus could also increase uptake of Pb and Cd by plants (Phospat ferlilizer).

PETA TINGKAT PENCEMARAN Cd PADA TANAH SAWAH
DI DESA TANJUNG MORAWA B KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG
N
WE S
200 0 200400600 Meters
KETERANGAN:
Jalan Sungai Pemukiman Tinggi Sudah Bukan Sawah Desa Tj Morawa B

DEPARTEM EN ILMU TANAH FAKULTAS PERTANIAN UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTAR A MEDA N
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Figure 2. Map of Contamination Rate of Cd in Rice Paddy Soil in Tanjung Morawa B Village Tanjung Morawa Subdistric, District of Deli Serdang

The result of soil analysis result that the higher content of heavy metal Cu found in the
northern soil samples. Soil sample 4 had highest concentration, it was caused that soil samples
were taken surrounding factories like wood processing factory. Lahuddin (2007) reported that
the increasing Cu into the soil there pollution could exist at the industries where one of those industries was wood burning industry, and also household wastes could contribute the Cu
content of that soils.
Alloway (1995) reported that the Cu content of soil was about 2 to 250 ppm. Soil
analysis indicated that soil sample 4 had the highest content of 190,77 ppm. This concluded
that the rice paddy soil in the near future would contain high concentration of Cu if it not well
managed.
The result of soil analysis showed that content of Zn was stills under the
concentration of permitted threshold in soil. Soil sample 4 indicated that the content of the
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highest Zn was 292,43 ppm. Rosmarkam and Yuwono (2002) reported that the concentration of zinc (Zn) in earth crust was about 80 ppm, while in soils was about 10-300 ppm. Soil sample 4 showed that the concentration of Zn was almost nearly to threshold critical limit in soils.

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PETA TINGKAT PENCEMARAN Cu PADA TANAH SAWAH
DI DESA TANJUNG MORAWA B KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG
N
WE S
200 0 200400600 Meters
KETERANGAN:
Jalan Sungai Pemukiman Sangat Rendah Sedang Tinggi Sudah Bukan Sawah Desa Tj Morawa B
DEPARTEM EN ILMU TANAH FAKULTAS PERTANIAN UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2009

Figure 3. Map of Contamination Rate of Cu in Rice Paddy Soil in Tanjung Morawa B Village Tanjung Morawa Subdistric, District of Deli Serdang
Figure 4 showed that that the area which contained high content of Zn found at the middle area it was soil sample 4. This might be caused that this location close to factories particularly wood processing and instant noodle factories, it had been described before that the people said that the waste materials was throw into irrigation canal in order to irrigate their rice paddy soils. Besides that, it was the same with Pb, Cd, and Cu, the presence of Zn was also influenced by the application fertilizers and pesticides at the high dosage and intensity by farmers.
The content of heavy metal in soils was influenced by some factors, one of them was soil pH. Table 2 showed that average soil pH was low. This condition supported the availability of heavy metals in soils (Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn). Charlena (2004) that when soil pH and CEC were low, Pb would be released from the soil colloid and freely moved in soil solution. The same case with the availability of Cd in acid soils. Rosmarkam and Yuwono (2002) reported that the availability Zn in soils was influenced by soil pH, where the high soil pH caused low availability of Zn, as if low soil pH would cause the high availability of Zn.

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PETA TINGKAT PENCEMARAN Zn PADA TANAH SAW AH
DI DESA TANJUNG MORAW A B KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG
N
WE S
200 0 200400600 Meters
KETERANGAN:
Jalan Sungai Pemukiman Rendah Sedang Tinggi Sudah Bukan Sawah Desa Tj Morawa B
DEPARTEM EN ILMU TANAH FAKULTAS PERTANIAN UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTAR A MEDA N 200 9

Figure 4. Map of Contamination Rate of Zn in Rice Paddy Soil in Tanjung Morawa B Village Tanjung Morawa Subdistric, District of Deli Serdang
Conclusions and Suggestions Conclusion
1. The content of Cd, Cu and Zn in rice paddy soils was above the threshold limit permitted, except Pb.
2. The content of Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn in irrigation water was above the maximum threshold permitted. Suggestions It was suggested that the plant analysis should be done in order to know the content of
heavy metals taken by plant up.

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