Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 20

Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Sediments in the Downstream of Kathajodi River, Odisha, India

  • Author:
  • S. R. Barik1, P.J. Mishra2, A. K. Nayak3, S. Rout4,
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 5524 to 5528

1College of Forestry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India-751003

2AICRP on Agroforestry, College of Forestry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India-751003

3Division of Crop production, Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India-753006

4School of Forestry & Environment, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India-211007

*Email: sandeeprout1988@gmail.com

Online published on 16 February, 2017.

Abstract

In this research paper physico-chemical analysis of sediments in the downstream of Kathajodi river, Odisha were studied. The parameters studied were pH, EC dSm−1, O.C., N, P, K and the heavy metal i.e. Cd, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb, Fe, Mn. pH of sediments in all sites of river bed of Kathajodi are acidic and the dominance of heavy metals follows a decreasing order of Fe>Mn>Zn>Pb>Ni>Cd. The present study shows the heavy metal in sediments in the river Kathajodi may be highly harmful to the flora and fauna.

Keywords

Heavy metal, physico-chemical, sediments