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Investigating the effect of urban sewage and industrial effluent on the morphological characteristics and amount of elements of plants in the green area of Ardakan Pellet Factory

Authors

Mehsa Arami
Jalal Gholamnezhad
Mostafa Shirmardi
https://doi.org/10.22034/NBR.12.3.2
Abstract
The water crisis in desert areas, including Ardakan city, has caused some industries to use industrial effluents and urban sewage as water sources to irrigate green spaces for the development of green spaces. Chadormello Industrial Complex is one of the industries that, in line with the management of this crisis, irrigates the green space created there with the water resources available at the factory site, i.e. industrial effluent and purified urban sewage. The purpose of this research is to investigate some morphological and physiological traits of a number of plants cultivated in this complex, which are irrigated with the mentioned water sources or gray water. This research is in the form of a complete randomized block design with three water treatments including three types of urban sewage treatment water, industrial wastewater and a mixture of both types of water in three replications for six plant species: olive, eucalyptus, pomegranate, Tehran pine, Egyptian silk and bitter elder. Investigating the morphological characteristics of height and diameter of the trunk and measuring the physiological characteristics including the amount of some elements including iron, zinc, manganese, copper, cadmium and lead were done. The results showed that among the three applied treatments.

Keywords

Green space
Industrial wastewater
morphological traits
Physiological traits
Urban sewage

  • Receive Date 08 June 2026
  • Publish Date 08 June 2026

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