Environmental Impact Statement on Kolleru Lake Water
M. Satish Kumar1, V.Lakshmi Prasanna2, K.Madhu Sudana Vijaya bhaskar3, J.Naveen Kumar4, N.Venkateswarlu5
1M. Satish Kumar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
2V.Lakshmi Prasanna, B.Tech Final Year Civil Engineering student in Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
3K.Madhu Sudana Vijaya bhaskar, B.Tech Final Year Civil Engineering student in Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
4J.Naveen Kumar, B.Tech Final Year Civil Engineering student in Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
5N.Venkateswarlu, B.Tech Final Year Civil Engineering student in Kallam Harandha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Manuscript received on March 16, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on March 24, 2020. | Manuscript published on March 30, 2020. | PP: 2509-2512 | Volume-8 Issue-6, March 2020. | Retrieval Number: F8408038620/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.F8408.038620
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Abstract: Catchments are most important for the purpose of practicing irrigation and recharging groundwater by collecting water during the rainy season so that the nearby land will be in surplus quantity of groundwater due to the continues percolation of water from the catchments, even the stored water in the form of catchments will be used as an alternative water source for other requirements apart from the irrigation practices such as for industries and other developmental activities taking place nearby the catchments. Year by year it was noticed that in the world scenario the pollutant concentration is keep on increasing especially water and air pollution due to the excessive load of population that is increasing from the rural to urban areas [10]. Coming to water pollution the major portion of pollution is increasing in the surface water bodies [4] due to various activities like surface runoff, intentionally releasing of untreated effluents from the nearby industries into the catchments [8] and the agricultural runoff etc, whatever the reason there is an immediate need and an emergency to monitor these catchments as the average rainfall is gradually decreasing due to the changing climatic conditions like global warming which leads to the reduced availability of water in the surface water bodies at the other side the existing water is being contaminated [5] by the activities of nearby people. The impact will be severe when the same situation continues in the days to come where the living standards of the people will be decreased at a notable level and the impact will be much more severe on the irrigated land which depends on the catchments. The study has done at Kolleru Lake in west godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. Collected Six Water samples from six locations around the lake for analysis [7] and then the results of the analysis compared with Central Pollution Control Board 1979and Indian standards 1982 guidelines for water in the surface water bodies to find out the present scenario of lake water.
Keywords: Catchments, Contaminated, Effluents, Groundwater, Population, Runoff.
Scope of the Article: Water Supply and Drainage.