Abstract

Izhar Ahmed¹, Tvd Prasad Rao², Nagi Reddy³ and M.Satyanarayanan⁴

The huge amount of solid waste generation has posed a serious threat to the environment. Owing to infiltration of rainwater, the solid waste leachate produced at the dumping site ultimately finds its way into the ground water causing contamination. The quality of ground water available near the municipal solid waste dumpsite in Autonagar, Hyderabad India has been tested for the possibility of contamination due to the leachates from dumpsite.  A number of physico-chemical characteristics of ground water sample around the dumpsite were analyzed so as to ascertain the extent of ground water pollution by leachates.Anions and Cations was estimated by Ion chromatography and for metals ICP-MS was used. The results obtained from the analysis showed that the physico-chemical parameters are beyond permissible limit according to Bureau of Indian Standards.

Dumping site; leachate; Groundwater; Contamination

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