Amarendra Harichandan
India
Research Article
Evaluation of Water Quality of Local Streams at Gandhamardan Iron Mines, Suakati, Keonjhar District of Odisha, India
Author(s): Amarendra Harichandan, Himansu Sekhar Patra and Kabir Mohan SethyAmarendra Harichandan, Himansu Sekhar Patra and Kabir Mohan Sethy
The present study focused on assessing the water quality by using water quality index (WQI) of six streams located surrounding iron ore mine of Suakati area of Keonjhar District of Odisha, which includes the physicochemical analysis of fourteen parameters: pH, colour, total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolve oxygen (DO), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total hardness (TH), chloride (Cl-), nitrate (NO3-), oil & grease (O&G), sulphate (SO42-), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), fluoride (F-) and arsenic(As). The WQI of these streams ranges from 4.47 to 244 indicating bad water quality of few streams. The high value of WQI has been found to be mainly from the higher values of TDS, TH, NO3-, O&G, Mn, SO42-, As, Fe and F- in different stream water. Correlation analysi.. View More»
