Characteristics study of wastewater in gadhinglaj

Wastewater and its characteristics is an important factor to recognize surface water pollution, This study has made a sincere attempt to characterize the sewage in Gadhinglaj city. The study involves sample collection, testing of sewage and findings are interpreted in the paper, The physical, chemical, parameters like Temperature, PH, BOD, Suspended solids etc are tested in the laboratory and these parameters are compared with CPCB standard requirement, It is found that some values of BOD, PH, Suspended solids exceeds the required standards of CPCB. The values of parameters at few stations shows excessive acidity where few shows excess alkalinity. The values of BOD at all stations are considerably high, which shows higher amount of organic loading. From these testing’s it can say that the sewage from city is heterogeneous and many of the selected sampling stations exceeds the permissible values. Therefore the primary and secondary treatment for the sewage is needed. On basis of findings some recommendations and suggestions are provided in the paper which is useful for treatment of sewage.