A STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AT COIMBATORE CITY AND ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IMPACT ON THE SOIL ENVIRONMENT IN VELLALORE DUMPING YARD, COIMBATORE CITY, TAMILNADU, INDIA.

Abstract

The prime objective of this work is the study the condition and quality of municipal solid waste, ground water and air in Coimbatore city. Coimbatore is the popular city in the south Indian state in Tamilnadu with an area of 246.8 km/sq. of 1.60 million as per 2001 sense. Coimbatore is the fastest growing city in India with major hub for Textiles Industries, Commerce, Education, Information Technology, Health Care and manifesting, it’s also refers to as the pump city. Due to rapid increase in urbanization, industrialization and population which leads to increase in solid waste generation and it is disposed by dumping on landfill. Day by day, increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) and its inadequate disposal have become major environmental issues in urban areas. The study of soil characteristics was undertaken to assess the quality of soil due to solid waste dumped at Vellalore dumping yard. Proper municipal solid waste management is not practiced in Coimbatore, though several initiatives are taken by the corporation. This paper deals with the study of polluted soil. The Physico – Chemical characteristics of soil samples were analyzed based on standard procedure. The soil characteristics like major and secondary nutrients such as pH , EC, MC, OM, Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+ and Minor nutrients were estimated and related parameters such as SAR, CEC and ESP were also calculated.