Nitrogênio e metais pesados em latossolo e eucalipto cinqüenta e cinco meses após a aplicação de biossólido. / Nitrogen and heavy metals in the soil and in eucalyptus grandis leaves 55 months after biosolid application.

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2004

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Concern regarding environmental quality and human health demands wastewater treatment technology and, with this treatment, sewage sludge is generated. The sewage sludge, after a properly microorganism reduction and physically conditioning, is usually known as biosolid. One of the alternatives for biosolid final disposal is the application in agriculture in areas with cultures not used for food consumption such as planted forestry. In this case it is necessary to evaluate, in long term studies, on the efficiency of the biosolid as a nutrient source supply as well as the possible harm effects considering the heavy metals content in the waste. In this study, an evaluation on N and Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn in soil (Typic Haplorthox) and in Eucalyptus grandis leaves, was effected in an experimental area where biosolid was applied in levels of 10, 20 and 40 t ha-1, 55 months ago. The experimental design adopted was randomized blocks, for treatments and replications. The results obtained, after 55 months of biosolid application, were: 1. there was an increase on nitrogen level in the deepest soil layer that was evaluated (60-90cm) due to biosolid application in levels of 20 or 40 t ha-1 , but the environmental risk of this increase is not different from the one that is caused by the use of mineral fertilizers; 2. the nitrogen level in Eucalyptus grandis leaves was not affected by biosolid application; 3. levels of Cd and Cr did not increase in the soil and no availability of those metals to the trees was observed; 4. there was an increase, over time, in the soil level of Cu, Ni and Zn removed by Mehlich extractant, in the treatment using 40 t ha-1 of biosolids. These increases indicate the possibility of mobility and plant availability of those metals, although these increases did not represent any harm effects to Eucalyptus grandis trees.

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nitrogen eucalyptus grandis fertilidade do solo sewage sludge lodo de esgoto nitrogênio heavy metals soil fertility eucalipto metal pesado do solo

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