Volume 10, Issue 1, October 2014, Pages 171–178
Eyankware Moses Oghenenyoreme1 and Obasi Philip Njoku2
1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B O53, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
2 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B O53, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Original language: English
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Oji River and its environs is located few kilometres from Enugu, the capital city of Enugu state. Geographically, the study area is bounded by latitudes 6o14' N-6o17'N and longitudes 7o17'E-7o19 IE. The study area is underlain by the Ajali Sandstone and Nsukka Formation. The area has abundant water resources. A total of ten (10) water samples were collected at various locations for hydrochemical analysis. The result shows that the water resources for (WS 2, 4-10) are safe for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses as the chemical constituents are below (WHO,2011) permissible limit. Except for WS 1-Oji wonderful river where nitrite (NO2+) and Fluoride (F) value were observed to be higher than (WHO, 2011) permissible limit (8.2 and 2.5mg/l) respectively. This indicate that nitrite and fluoride treatment is required for WS 1-Oji wonderful river while for WS3-Ogba spring were copper value (11.0mg/l) were observed to also be higher than (WHO, 2011) permissible and as such requires copper treatment.
Author Keywords: Groundwater, Surface water, Physical parameters, Chemical parameters and domestic purpose.
Eyankware Moses Oghenenyoreme1 and Obasi Philip Njoku2
1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B O53, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
2 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B O53, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Oji River and its environs is located few kilometres from Enugu, the capital city of Enugu state. Geographically, the study area is bounded by latitudes 6o14' N-6o17'N and longitudes 7o17'E-7o19 IE. The study area is underlain by the Ajali Sandstone and Nsukka Formation. The area has abundant water resources. A total of ten (10) water samples were collected at various locations for hydrochemical analysis. The result shows that the water resources for (WS 2, 4-10) are safe for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses as the chemical constituents are below (WHO,2011) permissible limit. Except for WS 1-Oji wonderful river where nitrite (NO2+) and Fluoride (F) value were observed to be higher than (WHO, 2011) permissible limit (8.2 and 2.5mg/l) respectively. This indicate that nitrite and fluoride treatment is required for WS 1-Oji wonderful river while for WS3-Ogba spring were copper value (11.0mg/l) were observed to also be higher than (WHO, 2011) permissible and as such requires copper treatment.
Author Keywords: Groundwater, Surface water, Physical parameters, Chemical parameters and domestic purpose.
How to Cite this Article
Eyankware Moses Oghenenyoreme and Obasi Philip Njoku, “PHYSICOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF WATER RESOURCES IN SELECTED PART OF OJI RIVER AND ITS EVIRONS, ENUGU STATE SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 171–178, October 2014.
