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Presence of Lead in the roadside soil of Aurangabad City.

Syed Asif, Syed Abed, Mazahar Farooqui,

The amount of lead metal present along the roadside of Aurangabad –Nasik road was determined near the Aurangabad city. The soil analysis reveals that the effect of direction of wind flow accumulation of lead. There was a decrease in the soil lead with increasing distance from the motor way due to a decrease in the rate of aerial deposition. At both the sites, lead concentration did not reach the back ground level even at the depth of 11cms.