Assessment of Surface Water Quality Parameters of Panchganga River

EasyChair Preprint no. 4911

Abstract

This article presents physico-chemical parameters of Panchganga River, Maharashtra, India. The river receives varieties of domestic, industrial and agricultural wastes located around the river. In the present work river water samples are collected from seven different locations P1 to P7 along Panchganga River. Parameters such as pH, turbidity, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), acidity, alkalinity, chlorides, total hardness, calcium sodium and potassium were determined. Dissolved oxygen (DO) deficit assessed using Streeter-Phelps equation from March to May 2019 on monthly basis. Results showed turbidity was out of desirable limit at all sampling locations. Most of parameters showed increase in value as river flows downstream. Calcium and alkalinity showed higher values than desirable limit as per Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for drinking water at last four sampling points. From results it is concluded that water quality is getting polluted moderately as river flows from Kolhapur to Ichalkaranji. And there is decrease in DO content of water as river flows downstream; critical DO ranging between 2.66-4.14mg/L is observed at distance of 3396-4475m from discharge point. Finally the attempt has been made to study the water quality index(WQI) of the river flow and the results showed that variation in quality of water from the upstreamto to the downstream.

Keyphrases: DO sag curve, Physio-chemical parameters, Water Quality Index (WQI)

@Booklet{EasyChair:4911,
  author = {Chidanand Patil and Sneha Bandekar and Sateesh Hosamane and Sanjeev Sangami and Amruth Adavimath},
  title = {Assessment of Surface Water Quality Parameters of Panchganga River},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 4911},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}