Pollution of River Gomti At Lucknow City Area

Water Quality of Gomti River is mainly affected by Sewage / Domestic Wastes and industrial wastes disposal in to the river. Apart from Mohan Mekin there are many Chiken cloth colouring units disposing colour dyes etc.in to the river Gomti. The washing of cloths near Gomti River increases detergents wastes. Also due to Religion, that is Temple’s flowers, Idol submersion during Durga Puja, Ganesh Puja etc Cattle’s bathing are also polluting the river water. Use of Plastics and their disposal in the river is creating havoc. A long duration study of water quality data of Gomti River in summer season average for the period 1997 to 2008.depicted that most of the chemical parameters are increasing. The chemical data of metal/ trace elements reveals that all the metal ions are within permissible limit of drinking water except the iron content, which is higher than its maximum permissible limit of 1.0 mg/l set by BIS.