Seasonal Assessment of Some Water Quality Parameters for Estuarine and Riverine Zones of Narmada River, Gujarat

Ronak Gupta¹ , Ketan Tatu² , Lamb Christian³ , Darpak Joshi⁴ , R.D. Kamboj⁵

1. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, India.
2. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, India.
3. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, India.
4. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, India.
5. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, India.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.5 , pp.42-51, Oct-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrbs/v5i5.4251

Online published on Oct 31, 2018

Copyright © Ronak Gupta, Ketan Tatu, Lamb Christian, Darpak Joshi, R.D. Kamboj . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The present study was carried out at eatuarine and riverine regions of river Narmada, one of the four major rivers of Gujarat. A total of eleven physico-chemical parameters of water were analyzed seasonally during a period of February 2017 to September 2017. The range of physical and chemical parameters obtained are Temperature 21.0°C to 36.90°C, Turbidity 0.04 NTU to 923 NTU, pH 7.2 to 9.0, Electrical Conductivity 0.0018mS to 40.78mS, Total Dissolved Solids 0.9 ppt to 5209 ppt, Dissolve Oxygen 3.42 mg/l to 8.32 mg/l, Salinity 0.27 ppt to 56.08 ppt, Acidity 30mg/l as CaCO3 to 90mg/l as CaCO3, Alkalinity 40 mg/l as CaCO3 to 200 mg/l as CaCO3 and Total Hardness 600 mg/l as CaCO3 to 16000 mg/l as CaCO3 The results of present research work revealed that certain parameters such as Total Hardness, Turbidity, and Total Dissolved Solids were not found to be within the acceptable range of IS 10500 – 2004 from the view point of domestic purpose; which might be due to the point and non-point sources of pollution that the river receives mainly by means of industrial effluent, agricultural runoff, and domestic sewage. Further, the water quality data generated from this study will help in potential remediation and other management decisions.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Estuarine Zone, Narmada, Physico-Chemical parameters, Riverine Zone, Seasonal sampling, Water quality

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