Integrated Assessment of Groundwater of Dudhwada Village of Padra Taluka with Special Reference to Industrial Pollution

This study was carried out to examine the groundwater quality in Dudhwada, Piludra, and Kharakdi which are the major areas of Padra which has remained affected for a long time due to industrial waste. Groundwater samples have been collected from the various locations of the above-mentioned villages from the varied sources such as hand pumps, bore wells, wells, and tube wells which were subjected to analyze the physicochemical parameters like pH, electrical conductivity, TDS, Na, K, Ca, Mg, fluoride, sulfate, phosphate, sulfide, chemical oxygen demand, DO. Cr, I, Mn, Ni, Co, Pb, Ca, Zn, Cd, and Cu heavy metals, etc. The obtained results were to determine if all the studied parameters fall under the prescribed guidelines of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and World Health Organization (WHO). Entire study conducted by GPCB has been compared with the present study, and it was determined that total dissolved solids (TDS), total hardness, and COD have shown a difference as compared to the past results while the concentration of electrical conductivity and alkalinity have shown an incline. Groundwater is the major source of reliance for the people of Dudhwada, emergence of industries, is somewhere responsible for the contamination due to its open release of chemical discharge in rivers and lakes. Dye and pharmaceutical industries with their mass production have absolutely lost control over the discharge of hazardous residue, leaving the water puddles, hand pumps highly contaminated.