Assessment of groundwater quality at a MSW landfill site using standard and AHP based water quality index: a case study from Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Chakraborty, Shubhrasekhar ^a   Kumar, R Naresh ^a,b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Contamination; Groundwater; Landfill leachate; MSW dumpsite; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; POTABLE WATER; QUALITY ASSURANCE; WATER; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; LANDFILL LEACHATES; MSW DUMPSITE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; WATER QUALITY INDEXES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; GROUND WATER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; METAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WATER QUALITY;

ALKALINITY; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; LANDFILL; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER QUALITY INDEX; ANALYSIS; CITY; PROCEDURES; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

INDIA; JHARKHAND; RANCHI;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

AMMONIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; METALS; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84966348863     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5336-x     Document Type: Article

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