Investigation of Some Selected Water Quality Parameters of the Buriganga River

Md. Sultanul Islam and Sharmin Zaman

A study was conducted to investigate the impact of the wastewater received from numerous sources along the Buriganga river through present state of water quality and pollution level. The water samples were collected from five different points namely Wise Ghat, Badamtoli Ghat, Babubazar Ghat, Lalkuthi Ghat and Postogola Ghat during monsoon from May to September in 2016 and analyzed for various physicochemical parameters. The observed values of temperature, pH, EC, DO, BOD, TDS and turbidity were spatially and temporally varied from 27-34ºC, 6.02-7.79, 136-285 μS/cm, 0.6-2.4 mg/l, 6.7-20 mg/l, 68.2-145 mg/l and 13.06-52 NTU respectively. The result showed that the river water was not suitable for aquatic organisms living therein.