Impact of Brick Fields on Riverine Environment: A Study Along River Kopai, Eastern India

River-human harmony has been gradually lessen and riparian brick field is one of major causes behind this. This paper is an attempt to study on impact of brick fields on riverine environment along Kopai River. Rapid growth of brick fields is an emerging problem for this area. Brick field is one of the important seasonal industrial activities but it has an antithetic impact on river as well on the river bank dwellers. Majority of brick fields of the study area are of recent origin. Dumping of ashes in the river bed and mud extraction from river bed interrupt the natural flow of river and that change the river characteristics. This study also suggest some ameliorative measures for these foreground.