Hydrogeochemical characterization of contaminated groundwater in Patancheru industrial area,southern India |
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Authors: | A G S Reddy Boraa Saibaba Ganji Sudarshan |
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Institution: | (1) Central Ground Water Board, MSUO, Pune, MH, India |
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Abstract: | The groundwater is one of the most contaminated natural resources in Patancheru industrial area due to unplanned and haphazard
industrial growth and urbanization without following basic pollution control norms. The rapid industrialization initiated
in early 1970 has started showing up its after effects few years later in the form of physiochemical contamination of the
both surface and groundwater bodies of the area. It has resulted in local people being deprived of safe drinking water, plant
and aquatic life has severely affected, and situation is deteriorating over the years in the area in spite of some preventive
and remedial measures being initiated. The focus of the present study is to understand the chemical characteristics of groundwater
and geochemical processes the contaminant water is undergoing which are normally imprinted in its ionic assemblages. The water
samples collected in pre- and post-monsoon seasons from forty two groundwater and four surface water sources were analyzed
for major constituents such as Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, CO3−, HCO3−, Cl−, SO42−, NO3−, and F−, and selected samples were tested for ten important trace metals like Fe, Pb, Bi, Mn, Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Cd. Na+ among cations and Cl− among anions dominate the water in both the seasons where as Ca2+, HCO3−, and Cl− show significant reduction in their ionic strength in post-monsoon. The groundwater in general is of mixed type, but most
of it belong to Na+–Cl−, Na+–HCO3−, Ca2+–Mg2+–HCO3−, and Ca2+–Mg2+–Cl− facies. The Na+ and Ca2+ are in the transitional state with Na+ replacing Ca2+ and HCO3−–Cl− due to physiochemical changes in the aquifer system. The evaluation of hydrochemistry through various ionic indices, ratios,
and plots suggest that silicate–carbonate weathering, ion exchange, dissolution, and evaporation processes are responsible
for origin of the present chemical status of the groundwater which is also controlled by the contamination from extraneous
sources that could have accelerated the dissolution processes. Gibbs plots authenticate that the evolution of water chemistry
is influenced by interaction of percolating water with aquifer matrix apart from anthropogenic enrichment of elements which
get over concentrated due to evaporation. |
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