The Pollution of Zeytinburnu Port, Istanbul, Turkey

İstanbul, Zeytinburnu Limanındaki Kirlilik Durumu

Kasım Cemal Güven, Nuray Balkıs, Kartal Çetintürk and Erdoğan Okuş

Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Management, Vefa

34116  Vefa, Istanbul- Turkey.

Abstract

The pollutants of sediment of Zeytinburnu Port were determined. The pollutant amounts were found high for organic as oil (3.8 mg/g), chlorined pestisides (9.55 ng/g), phenol and anorganic as Zinc, hydrogen sulphide, ammonium, nitrite, nitrate. The degradation products of DDT were determined as DDE and DDD. According to these results Zeytinburnu Port is a highly polluted area.

Keyword: Pollution, Zeytinburnu Port