Water quality assessment and GIS mapping of ground water around KMML industrial area, chavara

Author

Peter, Steffen ; Sreedevi, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Coll. of Eng., Trivandrum, India

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

123

Abstract

Sample water was collected from the open wells around the KMML area. Then the main physiochemical and biological analysis of the parameters like colour, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, pH, BOD, COD, TDS, iron, nitrates, Fecal coliforms etc. were done. After selecting some important water quality parameters, the calculation of Water Quality Index (WQI) was done. Finally, the water quality mapping using GIS was done. All the well water was found unsuitable for domestic purpose as it confirmed by WQI. Hence the use of waters of open wells in and around the industrial area may cause health hazards to nearby inhabitants. So it is necessary to control the contaminant transportation and ground water pollution in and around KMML area.

Keywords

contamination; geographic information systems; groundwater; health hazards; water pollution; water quality; GIS mapping; KMML industrial area; WQI; biological analysis; contaminant transportation; domestic purpose; ground water pollution; health hazards; nearby inhabitants; open wells; physiochemical analysis; water quality assessment; water quality index; water quality mapping; water quality parameters; Board of Directors; Contamination; Effluents; Indexes; Iron; Water pollution; Water resources; GIS mapping; Ground water pollution; MPNcoli forms; Open wells; Physio-chemical parameters; Water Quality Index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Technologies (ICGT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trivandrum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2635-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGT.2012.6477958

Filename

6477958