Spectrophotometric Study of Iron, Nitrate and  Phosphate in the River Gomti of Jaunpur City

Shafqat Alauddin; Amresh K; Shailendra Y; Tamheed F

Volume : I, Issue : VI, November - 2012

Spectrophotometric Study of Iron, Nitrate and Phosphate in the River Gomti of Jaunpur City

Shafqat Alauddin, Amresh K, Shailendra Y, Tamheed F

Abstract :

The present study specially aims to study spectrophotometerically the water quality of river Gomti of Jaunpur city. In the river Gomti direct wastes like municipal garbage, sewage as well as industrial wastes is dumped without treatment. River Gomti is continuously been contaminated by the sewage and other types of wastes. In the present study three parameters were chosen viz. iron, nitrate and phosphate. Although river water of Gomti would contain appreciable amount of iron, nitrate and phosphate. This study revealed that there is marked variation in the levels of these parameters during the years of study 2009, 2010 and 2011, sometimes it has been found to be more than WHO maximum contamination level.