1Department of Chemistry, S. P. College, Lonand, Tal. Khandala, Dist. Satara-41552
2Geology Department, Poona College, Camp, Pune-411 001. India
3Environmental and Civil Engineering Department, University of Birjand, (Iran)
The evaluation of groundwater pollution in the area affected by the effluents carrying Mula-Mutha River and solid waste disposal practice in the SE part of Pune city has been attempted by the statistical analysis of hydrochemical data. This study involved analysis of groundwater samples from 51 sampling stations in three consecutive seasons from June 2007 to May 2008 and the results are based on the statistical analysis of groundwater chemistry data from the five locations. The use of simple statistical analysis, frequency histograms, Q-Q plots, hierarchical cluster dendograms and Pearson correlation coefficients has revealed that different areas have different pollution levels and also different sources of contaminations. The Manjari area is affected by effluents carried by river as well as the fertilizers used for agriculture while the solid waste disposal practice has strong influence on groundwaters from Mantarwadi followed by Fursungi and Uruli Devachi. The Hadapsar area has minimum groundwater contamination.
Groundwater pollution, Statistical analysis, Solid waste disposal, Pune, India
