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Effluent Impact On Water Quality
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1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
1. To ascertain the level of pollution of the river due to the discharged effluents.
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To compare the physical, and chemical parameters in the river with the
World Health Organizations acceptable standard for drinking water.
3. To suggest or recommend the best ways of discharging effluent in the river.
4. To suggest ways of enforcing the methods of effluent discharge.
1.3 AREA OF STUDY
The
project is based on the analysis of the different water samples
collected from Aba River in Aba North Local Government Council of Abia
State, (where Unilever Plc and Nigeria Breweries Plc discharge their
effluent).
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1. To help bring to the notice of the companies the effect their waste is having in the environment.
2. To proffer solution on the best ways of discharging effluent into rivers.
3. To serve as a reference to all who will handle similar projects in future.
1.5 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Characteristics:
General classes of wastewater constituents (wastewater) such as
physical, chemical, and biological and biochemical.
Composition: The makeup of wastewater, including physical, chemical and biological constituents.
Constituents: Individual components, elements or biological entities such as suspended solids or ammonia nitrogen.
Contaminants: Constituents added to water through use that pollutes the water.
Disinfection: Reduction of disease-causing micro-organisms by physical or chemical means.
Effluent: Industrial liquid waste or liquid discharged from a processing step.
Impurities: Constituents added to water through use.
Nutrient:
An element that is essential for the growth of plants and animals.
Nutrients in wastewater, usually Nitrogen and phosphorus, may cause
unwanted algal and plant growth in rivers and lakes.
Parameter: Measurable factor such as temperature.
Pollutants: Same as contaminants.
Reclamation: Treatment of wastewater for subsequent reuse application or the act of reusing treated water.
Recycling: The reuse of treated wastewater and bio-solids for beneficial purposes.
Reunification:
Treatment of wastewater to a level suitable for a variety of
applications including indirect or direct portable reuse.
Reuse: Beneficial use of reclaimed are re-purified wastewater or stabilized bio-solids.
Sludge: Solids removed from wastewater during treatment. Solids that are treated further are called (fermed) biosolids.
Solids:
Materials removed from wastewater by gravity separation (by clarifiers,
thickeners and lagoons) and is the solid residue from dewatering
operations.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project work was aimed at determining the effect of effluent on Aba River. This became pertinent owing to the fact that companies discharge their effluent into the river without treatment. Four different samples were collected from four locations and analyzed, which include Upstream Sample (A), Unilever Effluent (B), Nigeria Breweries Effluent (C), and Down Stream Sample (D).The results obtained indicated that there is industrial input of metals like Iron, Copper, Zinc, Calcium and non meta ... Continue reading---
