Assessment of Leachate Impact on Ground Water and Soil Quality Near Kasabe Digraj Dumping Site, Sangli, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Based on population Maharashtra ranks first in urbanization among the all-major states in the country. Sangli city ranks in top 20 major cities in Maharashtra in urbanization. As compare to rural population the requirement of urban population is also a wide range of needs like clean water supply, sewerage and solid waste management etc. In most urban areas, the strong waste is dumped in open dumps without appropriate coating which influences the ecological media, for example, air, water and land. Along these lines, the present examination was centered around the effect of leachate permeation on ground water quality and soil quality. Leachate, soil and ground water samples were collected from Kasabe Digraj site and the surrounding areas of within 1.5 Km radius. The concentration of pH, EC, TDS, TH, Cl- , SO42-, NO3- and heavy metals is high in the sampling site near to the dumping yard. The high concentration of these chemical parameters and heavy metals reveals that there is a ground water and soil contamination from leachate percolation in the study area.