ASSESSMENT OF GROUND WATER QUALITY AT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE DUMPING SITE – VALAMPURIVILLAI, NAGERCOIL

S.Sidhardhan, S. Adish Kumar

Abstract: Ground water is constantly tapped for meeting rapidly growing demands of fresh water supply. Recent studies have revealed that ground water is highly susceptible to pollution from natural and anthropogenic activities. Rapid urbanization has caused numerous problems for waste disposal and in some cities these wastes are just dumped in landfills with no treatment. The leachates from these landfills contain substances that can contaminate the ground water and hence make them unsuitable to drink. The impact of such sites on the ground water quality can be assessed by monitoring the concentration of potential contaminants at a number of specific monitoring points. In this study, the quality of ground water around a municipal solid wastedumping site at Valampurivillai in Nagercoil was investigated. All the samples were tested for their physico-chemical parameters; e-coli form bacteria and heavy metal analysis. The study has shown that the ground water quality around the dumping site does not adhere and confirm to the drinking water quality standards as per Bureau of Indian Standards.

Keywords: Ground water quality, Solid Waste, Water Sampling, Heavy metal, etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323038