Recent Status of Groundwater Pollution of Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Site at Urali-Devachi Village in Pune City.

Abstract

The municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in the Pune city Municipal Corporation (PMC) is among the highest as compare with other mega cities in the India with average 0.400 kg (ranges from the 0.294 to 0.540 kg) of waste being generated per person per day. The present study aims to find the pollution of ground water at Urali-Devachi disposal site of Pune Municipal Corporation (Civic body). However, the result of present study was evaluated with the earlier study conducted in 2013 at the same disposal site by Dhere A. M et al. The data from earlier study reveals that, leachate from unscientific disposal of MSW badly pollute the ground water up to 1km periphery while in the present investigation shows that, the nature of some water pollutant (COD, BOD, Bicarbonates, Total Hardness) are increased by 3times than 2009 study. It is concluded that current processing to solid waste was responsible for polluting ground water. However this study recommending for alternative disposal site because of pollution and health concerns of people.