Level of Heavy Metals and Potential Ecological Risks in Irrigated Horticultural Farms in the Vicinity of Lake Ziway, Central Ethiopian Rift Valley Region

Table 1

LOD and LOQ for heavy metal analysis in water (mg/L) and soil (mg/kg) samples.

Parameter	Heavy metal
	As	Cd	Co	Cu	Cr	Ni	Pb	Hg	Zn
LOD for water	0.03	0.002	0.006	0.017	0.027	0.062	0.075	0.017	0.046
LOQ for water	0.1	0.006	0.021	0.058	0.090	0.208	0.252	0.058	0.153
LOD for soil	0.211	0.035	0.113	0.290	0.119	0.177	0.099	0.116	0.131
LOQ for soil	0.702	0.118	0.378	0.967	0.398	0.590	0.329	0.388	0.437