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Effects of Industrial Effluents on the Water Quality of River Hindon, District Saharanpur, U.P.


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1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, India
2 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee, India
3 Department of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, India
     

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To assess quantitatively the effect of organic load from the Star Paper Mill on the quality of Hindon water, a dissolved oxygen sag model is developed by using Streeter-Phelps equation for a stretch of 7 km down-stream of the paper mill effluent and Hindon confluence. The critical DO deficit and critical time for minimum dissolved oxygen have been computed. The study reveals that severe anaerobic condition prevails in the river between a distance of 2.2 km to 3.6 km from the confluence of Paper Mill effluent with the Hindon river. The sag in dissolved oxygen curve is not fully apparent in the observed model; though the occurrence of reducing condition is correlated by field observations.
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Authors

B. B. S. Singhal
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, India
R. P. Mathur
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee, India
D. C. Singhal
Department of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, India
B. S. Mathur
Department of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, India
V. K. Minocha
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, India
A. K. Seth
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, India
S. K. Sinha
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, India

Abstract


To assess quantitatively the effect of organic load from the Star Paper Mill on the quality of Hindon water, a dissolved oxygen sag model is developed by using Streeter-Phelps equation for a stretch of 7 km down-stream of the paper mill effluent and Hindon confluence. The critical DO deficit and critical time for minimum dissolved oxygen have been computed. The study reveals that severe anaerobic condition prevails in the river between a distance of 2.2 km to 3.6 km from the confluence of Paper Mill effluent with the Hindon river. The sag in dissolved oxygen curve is not fully apparent in the observed model; though the occurrence of reducing condition is correlated by field observations.