Monitoring of metal contamination in groundwater in western Haryana, India

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Samriti Sharma, Ajay Kumar Srivastava and Vikas Duggal

Chandigarh University, India

Maharshi Dayanand College, India

: J Nucl Ene Sci Power Generat Technol

Abstract

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The present study was conducted to investigate levels of trace metals Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Iron and Potassium of groundwater samples in Sirsa District of Western Haryana, India. The Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer was used to assay the levels of metals and Flame Photometry was used to analyze Potassium. The results indicate that Zn, Cu, Mn, Fe and K varied from 5.9 to 1950 μg/l, BDL to 240 μg/l, 3 to 28 μg/l, 47 to 2383 μg/l and 2930 to 35190 μg/l respectively. The pH and electrical conductivity (EC) ranged from 7.1 to 7.8 and 435 to 13180 μS/cm. The results were compared with permissible limits set by World Health Organization and United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Biography

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Samriti Sharma has studied Master of Science in Physics at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India and proceeded to do her PhD from Chandigarh University Gharuan. She is passionate about the research topic she has chosen and is doing a through and detailed investigation of the topic estimation of natural radioactivity in the environs of western Haryana. She has developed an interest about health and well-being of people of rural community.