Urban Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Indices for Lafayette, Louisiana

1,290 pollution indices for urban soil heavy metal contamination in Lafayette, LA. The dataset was authored by Holly L. Heafner and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Calculate pollution indices for heavy metals based on local geochemical backgrounds mentioned in the platform tags.
• Assess contamination profiles in urban settings, particularly roadside areas, as indicated by the platform tags.
• Correlate heavy metal concentrations with basic soil properties like soil organic matter, as suggested by the platform tags.

Strengths

• Dataset contains 1,290 pollution index entries.
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying soil samples is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Holly L. Heafner via figshare.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:37:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.