Assessment of Physico-chemical Characteristics of Vairtarna Estuary of Palghar, (M.S.) India

Abstract

The study of estuarine water quality plays an important role in evaluating and determining the pollution status and health of the water. Vaitarna River estuary is one of the important water bodies in the Palghar district. Entire stretch of the estuary was arbitrarily divided into three zones. Physical and chemical variables of water were monitored season-wise in the year 2016. In the present study, the entire stretch of estuary showed high values of Temperature, pH, BOD, C.O.D. Acidity, Salinity, Hardness and Sulphate different physicochemical parameters were studied in 3 stations of the estuary. There was no previous data from the Vaitarna estuary. The study revealed that one-year data (January 2016 to December 2016) shows good environmental conditions to differences in physicochemical characteristics within the permissible limit. It concluded that the water quality is good, and it is the responsibility of our society the importance of such water bodies to keep free from pollution. Because of the fishery point of view the local fishermen depend on this area of water resources.