A.S. Post-Graduate College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh, 245407.
Present address: 1 Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012.
Field survey for assessing ground water quality and salinity build-up in irrigated soils of Sikandarabad area of Bulandshahar district, Uttar Pradesh as influenced by irrigation with mixed industrial effiuent of various industries was carried out during June 1995. Samples of effiuent, surface and subsurface groundwater from ponds, hand pumps and tubewells and soil samples from irrigated fields were collected and analysed for different characteristics. It is inferred that indiscriminate disposal of the eilluent of this industrial complex has aggravated the salinity and sodicity prcblem in the irrigated soils and shallow surface water resources like ponds. Organic carbon status of surface soils increased two to three times as compared with that of adjoining normal soils.
Industrial effluents, heavy metals, ground water, soil characteristics
