Open AccessQuality of Soil in Gossaigaon Sub-Division and Its Impact on Environmental Degradation
Author(s) -
Binay Kumar Basumatary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current agriculture research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-4688
pISSN - 2321-9971
DOI - 10.12944/carj.9.3.06
Subject(s) - alkalinity , water quality , environmental science , soil water , population , leaching (pedology) , environmental chemistry , chemistry , soil science , ecology , demography , organic chemistry , sociology , biology
People on Earth are under tremendous threat due to undesired changes in the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water and soil. Due to increased human population, industrialization, use of unwanted amounts of fertilizers and man-made activities, water and soil is highly polluted with different harmful contaminants. Natural water and soil contaminates due to weathering of rocks and leaching of soils, mining processing etc. It is necessary that the quality of drinking water and soil should be checked at regular time interval, because due to use of contaminated drinking water, human population suffers from variety of water borne diseases. The study area, Gossaigaon sub-division of Kokrajhar district, Assam lies on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river and is slowly sloping towards south from the foothills of Bhutan upto an average height of 42 MSL. The tributaries of the Brahmaputra- Sankosh, Ripu, Dambra, Bura chara, Gadadhar, Gurufella, Madati, Hel, Gongea are flowing southward which have their sources in the Himalayas. In this paper an attempt has been made to assess the quality of soil of 10 different stations by considering the parameters like Colour, Temperature, pH value, Conductance, Alkalinity, Dissolved Oxygen, Hardness, TS, TDS, Chlorine, Fluorine, Sulphur, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Iron, Calcium and Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Zinc, Nickel, Lead and Copper which have direct correlation with human health.