• Title of article

    Spread of Composite Pollutants in Shallow Waters of the Niger Delta

  • Author/Authors

    ABBEY, T. M. University of Port Harcourt - Faculty of Science - Department of Physics, Environmental Research Group, Nigeria , ANYALEBECHI, O. University of Port Harcourt - Faculty of Science - Department of Physics, Environmental Research Group, Nigeria , AKONYE, L. A. University of Port Harcourt - Faculty of Science - Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, Environmental Research Group, Nigeria

  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    5
  • To page
    11
  • Abstract
    Experimental survey has been advanced on the effects of composite pollutants spread in shallowwaters of the Niger Delta, using the Trans-Amadi creek as a case study. The analysis, which involves the identification of the nature of pollutants by the absorption photo spectrometer method and the Aitken Lagrangian interpolation model, shows that the contaminated water body, whose contaminants resulted from both human and industrial wastes consist of K, Mg, Mn, Fe, Zn and SO4^2- pollutants. The amount per litre of these elements in the sampled water were found to be higher than the United Nation recommended standards. The analysis shows that the spread follow a trend of the form: C(y, τ) Co Σ1 n rightarrow 0 (α0, y ^0) Σ 2 M rightarrow β0 τ0; C0 is the initial quantity deposited at the point y = 0. The overall analysis shows that K, Mg, Mn and SO4^2- were most predominant in the spread.
  • Keywords
    Spread , Composite Pollutants , Shallow Waters , Niger Delta
  • Journal title
    Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management
  • Record number

    2660401