TITLE:
Pit Lake Water Quality of Central India
AUTHORS:
Shobhana Ramteke, Vintee Verma, Suryakant Chakradhari, Pravin Kumar Sahu, Bharat Lal Sahu, Keshaw Prakash Rajhans, Ankit Yadav, Khageshwar Singh Patel
KEYWORDS:
Pit Lake, Water Quality, Fluoride, Surfactant, Microbe
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.8 No.1,
February
19,
2016
ABSTRACT: Several pit lakes exist in
the Raipur area due to lime stone mining. The water of pit lakes is used for
bathing, washing and irrigation purposes. They are found to be contaminated
with toxicantsi.e.
fluoride, surfactants and microbes far above the recommended limits. In this
work, the water quality of 29 pit lakes locates in two districts: Raipur and
Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh, India are assessed for drinking and irrigation
purposes.