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A Comparative Study on Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils Surrounding the Municipal Wastes Disposal Site

Krishna Komar Singh, Surendra Roy

Abstract


Increase in population and industrialization has been creating space problems in and around the cities for habitation. In addition, the cities have been facing disposal problems of solid and liquid wastes generated from industrial and residential areas. Disposal of municipal solid wastes without planned way in any city has been causing air, water and soil pollution in the vicinity of dump site. The wastes disposal can alter the engineering properties of the soil. In this study, to compare the geotechnical properties of contaminated and uncontaminated soils, a municipal solid wastes disposal site of Khurram Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh was selected. At this site, the municipal authority vehicles dump the domestic wastes, collected from door to door of the residential areas of Khurram Nagar. Soil samples (contaminated) were collected from all the four directions of the disposal site. The uncontaminated (raw soil) soil was collected nearby the dump site where there was no chance of flow of dump runoff. Then samples were analyzed for different geotechnical properties like moisture content, bulk density, consistency limits, compaction characteristics, particle size, etc. In addition, pH values of all the soils were also found out. The gradation of the particles was assessed based on the coefficient of uniformity and coefficient of curvature. Geotechnical properties of contaminated and uncontaminated soils varied from location to location.

Keywords: Municipal solid wastes, contaminated, uncontaminated, consistency limits, particle size, compaction characteristics.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jgget.v9i1.833

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