Study on Environmental Contamination and Assessment of the Impact of Municipal Solid Waste on Soil at the Vellalore Dumping Yard, Coimbatore City

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2020-12, Vol.1006 (1), p.12026
• Main Authors: Pratheba, S, Johnpaul, V, Balasundaram, N
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1006/1/012026

The main objective of the work is to research the soil condition and quality of municipal solid waste from (2012-2017) Coimbatore region. Coimbatore is a popular town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu with an area of 246.8 km / sq. of 1.60 million, according to the 2001 sense. It is the second largest city after Chennai and one of India's fastest growing cities with rapid developments in all fields. Due to the rapid increase in urbanization, industrialization and population, which leads to an increase in the generation of solid waste and encourages dumping on landfill sites, environmental issues are a major concern. The improper disposal of solid waste pollutes soil, water and air. The soil characteristics study was undertaken to assess the soil quality due to the solid waste dumped at the Vellalore dumping yard. This paper sets out the methodology used to find all the chemicals in the soil and, by means of a prospective test, we found the limits for their strength to be present in the soil. In order to assess the soil conditions in the dumping yard for the months of May and December 2016, soil samples from the Vellalore area were collected at different locations. In the current study, samples from five locations, namely S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5, are to be collected in all four directions and from the dumping site. This paper deals with the study of soil polluted. Physical - Chemical characteristics of soil samples were analyzed on the basis of a standard procedure. Characteristics of soil such as pH, EC, MC, OM, Ca2 +, Mg2 +, Na+, K+ and related parameters such as SAR, CEC and ESP have also been calculated. The characteristics study of soil samples from the above locations showed that the solid waste dump at these locations had changed the characteristics of the soil from the test data.