Changes in soil properties due to irrigation with paper industry wastewater
Ratna P Roy1, Jagdish Prasad, A P Joshi
1Department of Chemistry, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur-440 033, India.
Journal of Environmental Science & Engineering
|August 25, 2009
Abstract:
The effect of irrigation by the effluent of paper industry versus well water on properties of soils in three seasons was studied in Nagpur district, Maharashtra. The effluent had high total dissolved salts and biological oxygen demand than well water. pH, EC and availability of N, P, K, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Cd, Co, Cr, Ni, Pb, particularly in surface layer of paper industry effluent irrigated soil at different seasons found to increase compared to well water irrigated soils, but heavy metals (non-essential nutrients) were within the permissible limits.
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