Pit Lake Water Quality of Central India - Journal of Geographic Information System

JGIS > Vol.8 No.1, February 2016

Pit Lake Water Quality of Central India ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jgis.2016.81003 3,734 Downloads 4,955 Views Citations

Author(s)

Shobhana Ramteke, Vintee Verma, Suryakant Chakradhari, Pravin Kumar Sahu, Bharat Lal Sahu, Keshaw Prakash Rajhans, Ankit Yadav, Khageshwar Singh Patel^*

Affiliation(s)

School of Studies in Chemistry/Environmental Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India.

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 toxicants i.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.

KEYWORDS

Pit Lake, Water Quality, Fluoride, Surfactant, Microbe

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Ramteke, S. , Verma, V. , Chakradhari, S. , Sahu, P. , Sahu, B. , Rajhans, K. , Yadav, A. and Patel, K. (2016) Pit Lake Water Quality of Central India. Journal of Geographic Information System, 8, 28-39. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2016.81003.

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