Abstract :
The study assessed the water quality of six pond water of Berhampur town of Ganjam district, Odisha. The results of this present comparative study of pond water were carried out by taking certain important parameters like Temperature, PH, Transparency, Total dissolved solid, Total suspended solid, Redox potential, Dissolved oxygen(DO) , Biological oxygen demand (BOD), Chemical oxygen demand (COD), Total hardness, Chloride and also macrophytes were analyzed. The Temperature, PH, were found normal range ,but other parameters like TDS, TSS, COD, alkalinity were found to be very high where as the DO and BOD were found to be very low. This is because of sewage, municipal waste and domestic effluents discharge in to the water body and excessive facial contamination and human unhygienic habits like washing. In the present study, among the six ponds the Golapalli Pond(Sample-E) and Gudikhai pond(Sample-F), were highly polluted ,because many parameters like BOD Total Alkalinity, TDS,TSS.COD were found to be very high than the other ponds. So these ponds are unsafe for human use like washing, bathing and other uses. Following control measures are required to protect the water bodies of these ponds.
Author Name : S.K. Jena, Lichata Patra, Rasmita Padhy, M. Mahapatra , B.K.Mohanty & G. Sabat
Keywords: Water Quality, Pond, BOD, TDS.
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