eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Material Science Research India 0973-3469 2016-12-20 13 2 116 121 4465 article Physicochemical Analysis of Ground Water Samples of South Coastal Areas of Kanniyakumari in the Post-Tsunami Scenario Krishna Prakash Arunachalam 1 Monikandon Sukumaran 2 Mohammad Tanveer 3 Kesavan Devarayan 4 Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Kanniyakumari 629 004, India Department of Basic Engineering, College of Fisheries Engineering, Tamil Nadu Fisheries University, Nagapattinam 611001, India Department of Aquacultural Engineering, College of Fisheries Engineering, Tamil Nadu Fisheries University, Nagapattinam 611001, India Department of Basic Sciences, College of Fisheries Engineering, Tamil Nadu Fisheries University, Nagapattinam 611001, India

In this study, the effect of ‘natural/self cleaning’ of ground water by precipitation after a decade of tsunami is evaluated along the coast of Kanniyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India. The samples were collected from five stations namely Colachel, Muttom, Periyakadu, Manakudy, and Kanniyakumari. The physicochemical parameters such as turbidity, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, pH, alkalinity, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, and fluoride were evaluated and compared with the database of the pre-tsunami sample collected in 2004. The results indicated that the ‘natural cleaning’ has improved the quality of the ground water over the years after tsunami.

 https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol13no2/physicochemical-analysis-of-ground-water-samples-of-south-coastal-areas-of-kanniyakumari-in-the-post-tsunami-scenario/ Ground Water Quality Kanniyakumari Natural Cleaning Physicochemical Parameters Tsunami