Quality Assessment of Mine Water in the Raniganj Coalfield Area, India

Singh, Abhay Kumar; Mahato, Mukesh Kumar; Neogi, Babita; Singh, K. K.

doi:10.1007/s10230-010-0108-2

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“…The RCF also contains large reserves of iron ore occurring chiefly as nodules along with good quality fire clay in the Barakar stage of RCF (Sikdari et al 2004). The high demand for coal from this area has ensued in intensive mining activities and expansion of the lease hold areas, along with the piling up of vast areas of overburden material and tailings, thus resulted in significant long-term environment hazards in the form of acid mine drainage and contamination of local water resources with toxic trace metals (Singh and Singh 2010;Banerjee 2011;Singh et al 2012). …”

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Acid drainage potential from coal mine wastes: environmental assessment through static and kinetic tests

Banerjee¹

2013

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The present study involved the assessment of potential generation of acid drainage from a coal mining area in India. Laboratory-based static and kinetic tests on overburden samples were conducted. Results of the static tests using acid base accounting indicate that all samples may be acid generators, and their generation capacity varied between likely, possible and low. To verify the acid generation potentiality of those samples showing a high acid drainage production in the static test, the kinetic test, using humidity cell, was conducted for a period of 15 weeks. The samples were leached with simulated rain water to mimic the chemical weathering under controlled laboratory conditions and imitate actual mine site leaching. Data obtained from chemical analysis of collected leachate were used to estimate production and reaction rates of acid generation and neutralizing capacity. Based on the kinetic test, it can be concluded that presently the neutralizing capacity of the samples is better than the oxidation capacity (acid generation). But due to the high weathering rate of carbonates, as reflected by the simulated leaching test, the neutralizing materials (carbonates) will eventually be exhausted earlier (since they showed dissolution rate) than the acid generation species (sulfates). Thus, acid drainage production is predicted from that point of time, when the neutralizing capacity has been exhausted for these mine sites.

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Acid drainage potential from coal mine wastes: environmental assessment through static and kinetic tests

Banerjee¹

2013

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…On the basis of this limit, all water samples under investigation area were not problematic for , respectively with the mean value of 9.03 mg L -1 (Table 3) and it contributed 3% to the total anionic mass balance (Figure 2a). On a global basis, one third of the SO 4 in aquatic systems derived from rock weathering (include two major forms of sulphur sedimentary rocks, pyrite and gypsum), about 60% from fossil fuel combustion and minor amounts from volcanism (5%) and cycling salts (2%) (Berner and Berner, 1987;Singh et al, 2010). According to Ayers and Westcot (1985), the acceptable limit of SO 4 in irrigation water is less than 20 mg L -1…”

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Appraisal of surface water quality for irrigation collected from Sadar upazila of Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Akter¹,

Zakir²,

Rahman³

et al. 2018

Arch. Agri. Environ. Sci.

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An attempt was made to assess surface water quality for irrigation collected from Sadar upazila of Jamalpur district, Bangladesh. Total 22 water samples were collected from the study area and analyzed for various physicochemical parameters following standard protocols at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Major cation and anion chemistry showed their dominance in order of Ca > K > Na > Mg and HCO 3 > Cl > SO 4 > BO 3 > PO 4 > CO 3 , respectively. The study revealed that 18, 14 and 6 samples were unsuitable for irrigation in respect of HCO 3 , K and BO 3 contents in water, respectively. Among the heavy metals, the concentration of Pb, Mn, Cd and Cu in water were comparatively higher than the standard limits, which makes 22, 14, 10 and 3 samples problematic for long term irrigation in the study area. Electrical conductivity (EC) and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) reflected that surface water samples were low to very high salinity (C1-C4) and low alkalinity (S1) hazards classes. As regards to hardness, out of 22 water samples, 2 were very hard, 8 were hard, 11 were moderately hard and only one was soft in quality. The study results concluded that HCO 3 , BO 3 , K, Pb, Mn, Cd and Cu were the major contaminants in the surface water of Sadar upazila of Jamalpur district, Bangladesh. Finally, the study suggested that the surface water in this area needs to treat to minimize the amount of contaminants before use for irrigation.

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“…As per this limit, all samples were not troublesome for irrigating soils and crops grown in the investigated area. On a global basis, one third of the SO 4 in aquatic systems derived from rock weathering (include two major forms of sulphur sedimentary rocks, pyrite and gypsum), about 60% from fossil fuel combustion and minor amounts from volcanism (5%) and cycling salts (2%) [28][29] . On the other hand, trace amount of phosphate was detected in most of the groundwater samples ( (Table 3).…”

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“…While high salinity (high EC) in water leads to formation of saline soil, a high sodium concentration changes soil properties and reduce soil permeability, which leads to development of an alkaline soil 29 . The computed sodium adsorption ratio of groundwater samples was within the limit of 0.99 to 6.93 with a mean value of 1.86 (Table 4).…”

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Evaluation of groundwater quality with special emphasis on heavy metal contamination in major areas of Joypurhat district, Bangladesh

2017

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An attempt was made to assess the quality of groundwater collected from three Upazila's of Joypurhat district, Bangladesh. Forty five (45) groundwater samples were collected to evaluate them on the basis of their suitability for drinking and irrigation usage. Major cation chemistry showed their dominance in order of Ca > Mg > Na > K and the study results inferred 29, 35 and 45 groundwater samples as problematic for irrigation due to higher concentration of Ca, Mg and K, respectively. Among the anions, Cl content in groundwater was the highest (4.80 to 29.60 meq L -1 ) followed by SO 4 (1.50 to 18.90 mg L -1 ). The concentration of Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb and Cr varied from 0.32 to 0.84; trace to 0.14; 0.71 to 0.81; 1.71 to 10.55 and 2.33 to 3.68 mg L -1 , respectively while the concentration of Zn was trace. EC and SAR reflected that all groundwater samples were low to high salinity (C1-C3) and low alkalinity (S1) hazards classes. As regards to hardness, 8 groundwater samples were classified as soft and the rest 37 samples were moderately hard in quality. The concentrations of Na, CO 3 , HCO 3, Fe, Mn, Zn, SO 4 and PO 4 ions were detected below the toxic levels and might not pose threat to soil environment. But Cl content in all groundwater samples was above the recommended limit (4.0 meq L -1 ) for irrigation and 41 samples also exceeded the permissible limit (250 mg L -1 ) of drinking water quality. In context of heavy metals, all samples were found unsuitable for irrigation due to higher concentration of Cu, Cr and Pb. Concentrations of Fe, Cr, Pb, Ca and Mg in groundwater samples also exceeded the guideline value of drinking water. The study concluded that the substances which may cause pollution should be avoided through the use of good management practices.

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Quality Assessment of Mine Water in the Raniganj Coalfield Area, India

Cited by 112 publications

References 15 publications

Acid drainage potential from coal mine wastes: environmental assessment through static and kinetic tests

Acid drainage potential from coal mine wastes: environmental assessment through static and kinetic tests

Appraisal of surface water quality for irrigation collected from Sadar upazila of Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Evaluation of groundwater quality with special emphasis on heavy metal contamination in major areas of Joypurhat district, Bangladesh

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