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Geochemical characterization of groundwater from northeastern part of Nagpur urban, Central India

Authors: Deepali Marghade, D. B. Malpe, A. B. Zade

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 7/2011

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Hydrogeochemical investigations are carried out in the northeastern part of Nagpur urban to assess the quality of groundwater for its suitability for drinking and irrigation purposes. Groundwater samples are collected from both shallow and deep aquifers to monitor the hydrochemistry of various ions. The groundwater quality of the area is adversely affected by urbanization as indicated by distribution of EC and nitrate. In the groundwater of study area, Ca²⁺ is the most dominant cation and Cl⁻ and HCO₃ ⁻ are the dominant anions. Majority of the samples have total dissolved solids values above desirable limit and most of them belong to very hard type. As compared to deep aquifers, shallow aquifer groundwaters are more polluted and have high concentration of NO₃ ⁻. The analytical results reveal that most of the samples containing high nitrate also have high chloride. Major hydrochemical facies were identified using Piper trilinear diagram. Alkaline earth exceeds alkalis and weak acids exceed strong acids. Shoeller index values reveal that base-exchange reaction exists all over the area. Based on US salinity diagram most of samples belong to high salinity-low sodium type. A comparison of groundwater quality in relation to drinking water standards showed that most of the water samples are not suitable for drinking purpose.

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Title: Geochemical characterization of groundwater from northeastern part of Nagpur urban, Central India
Authors: Deepali Marghade
D. B. Malpe
A. B. Zade
Publication date: 01-04-2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 7/2011
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-010-0627-y

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