Open AccessThe Impact of Polluting Sources on the Physical-Chemical Properties of Water in the Curved River in Kosovo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of environmental treatment techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2309-1185
DOI - 10.47277/jett/9(2)374
Subject(s) - pollution , environmental science , groundwater , industrial wastewater treatment , water pollution , surface water , wastewater , impossibility , hydrology (agriculture) , work (physics) , industrial pollution , water resource management , environmental engineering , environmental chemistry , ecology , geology , chemistry , mechanical engineering , geotechnical engineering , engineering , political science , law , biology
It has already become a tradition to research the pollution with heavy metals of surface and groundwater. Very few studies have been done to assess the ecological status of rivers in Kosovo, based on their assessment through physical-chemical parameters, such as: pH, OT, BOD5, COD, N-NH4, NO3-, NT, PO4-P, PT. Although it is known that physical-chemical pollution of surface water is present in the flow of rivers, since in the impossibility of setting up plants for the treatment of industrial and urban wastewater, in all cases their discharge is done in a way free and uncontrolled. Therefore, our object of study consists in the real evidence of physical-chemical pollution of the waters of the Curved River (Kriva Reka), a segment of which crosses the industrial area of the Artana Mine, located in the northeastern part of Kosovo. During the research work we have identified six monitoring points: M1 and M6 represent the river waters outside the industrial zone, while the other four monitoring points reflect the industrial discharge waters and the polluted river waters in the industrial zone. Classical and instrumental methods of analytical chemistry have been applied to determine physical-chemical parameters. The results obtained after the analysis of water samples give the values of physical-chemical parameters, based on which we estimate that the Curved River is characterized by poor ecological status.