Determination of the Seasonal Variation of Physicochemical Characteristics of Brewery Industry Effluent and Receiving Water of Ikpoba-Oha Rivers, Benin City, Nigeria | Chapter 01 | Emerging Challenges in Environment and Earth Science Vol. 2

 The current research focuses on determining the physicochemical properties of brewery effluent and receiving water, which serves as a source of drinking water, fishing, and agricultural irrigation for the community. During the wet and dry seasons of 2016, the impact of brewery effluents on the water quality of the Ikpoba-Oha River was investigated. pH, temperature, total solids, total dissolved solids, hardness, BOD, COD, DO, chlorides, phosphates, and sulphates were all measured in water samples taken from three different locations along the river. Samples were taken at three different locations: point 1 (effluent), point 2 (upstream), and point 3 (downstream) (downstream). The pH (5.90-8.38), temperature (25.20oC-33.15oC), chlorides (12.0-129.2 mg/l), phosphates (0.9-20.48 mg/l), sulphates (3.30-53.0 mg/l), nitrates (3.8-17.20 mg/l), DO (2.3-4.15mg/l), Total Hardness (12.10-425.6 mg/l), Ca hardness (6.0-296.4 mg/l), Because of the water dilution effect, the levels of most of the parameters evaluated are normally greater near the point of effluent released into water bodies and distributed to less harmful circumstances downstream.

Author(S) Details

S. A. Adegbite
Department of Chemical Sciences, Joseph AYO Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria.

A. E Adeleke
Department of Basic Sciences, Adeleke University, EDE, Nigeria.

A. Sangoremi
Department of Chemistry, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa, Nigeria.

E. O. Oladele
Department of Chemical Sciences, Joseph AYO Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria.

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