Volume 60, Issue 334, January - April 2024

Effect of Swali abattoir activities on the pollutants level of Ekole River of Swali-Yenegoa in relation to water quality standards

Opololaoluwa Oladimarum Ogunlowo^♦, Churchill Ebinimitei Simon

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Federal University Otuoke, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Federal University Otuoke, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Pollutants are hazardous to human health and environments, in view of this, the research investigated the effect of Swali abattoir activities on the pollutants level of Ekole river of Swali-Yenegoa in relation to water quality standards, and provided a spatial analytical framework for sustainable urban environmental management, through analysis of physicochemical parameters and the heavy metals characterization and statistical investigation in relationship with the standard was done using AVONA within MATLAB 2020B. The average values of the results for physicochemical parameters which includes; pH, electrical conductivity, temperature, sulphate, bicarbonate, dissolve oxygen, BOD, phosphate, Alkalinity and Acidity for Point B mean values are higher than Point B, while the mean values of heavy metals in the samples of Point A including iron, lead, cadmium, magnesium and chromium are higher than Point B. The finding revealed that all the physiochemical parameters and all the heavy metals investigated were above the recommended value of FEPA and WHO for potable water. The p value was significant at 6.2 × 10−14 for point ‘A’ while at point ‘B’ it was at 2.58102 × 10−7which are quite lower than 0.05level significant tested.

Keywords: Abattoir, Wastes, Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Physicochemical parameters

Discovery, 2024, 60, e1d1394

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v60i334.e1d1394

Published: 09 January 2024