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Abstract
The aim of the work is to study the ecological features, pollution status and remediation of Kitchener Drain water to aid decision makers with important database. This can be achieved within the following objectives : Identify study sites in Kitchener drain, Quantitative analysis and descriptive vegetation at the selected sites in Kitchener drain, Collect samples of water and sediment from selected sites to conduct the physical and chemical analysis, Estimation of heavy metals in plants, water and sediment, Determination the phyto-accumulation efficiency of some aquatic species growing in Kitchener Drain Water, Isolation, purification and identification of the resistant fungi from water and sediment samples, Removal of heavy metal by batch mode, Removal of different pollutants by Fenton oxidation (Chemical remediation). Floristically, the total number of the recorded flowering plant species in Kitchener drain is 34, belonging to 33 genera and related to 19 families. The family Poaceae comprises 7 species (20.59%) of the total recorded plant species, followed by Asteraceae and Chenopodiaceae 4 species (11.76%, each) and Amaranthaceae, Convolvulaceae and Polygonaceae 2 species (5.88%, each). Each of the remaining families is represented by one species. According to the life-span, the recorded taxa can be classified under three categories as follows: 20 perennial species, 13 annual species and one biennial species. The pollution load index gives an indication to no appreciable pollution, and the degree of contamination showed low to very high degree of contamination. The geoaccumulation index (Igeo), indicated unpolluted category for metals except for Cd, ranged between unpolluted to moderate pollution levels. The obtained results clarify that, the hydrophytes was enriched with Fe as the most abundant metal followed by Ni>Co>Cd>Pb>Cr. E. stagnina, E. crassipes and P. australis had the highest concentrations for each of the heavy metals among the studied hydrophytes in summer and winter seasons along the Kitchener drain. Eight fungal isolates were identified to be a potential consortium to remove heavy metals from Kitchener drain, as this generated consortium was efficient in removing most of the Cd2+ and Ni2+ ions and more than half of the Cr6+ ions from both the prepared standard solutions and the real Kitchener drain even in the presence of heavy metals. Fenton’s reagent was found to be a suitable chemical treatment method. Fenton’s reagent consists of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and Ferrous ions (Fe2+).