Each water body has an individual pattern of physical and chemical characteristics. Industrial effluents are the major pollutants of the marine environment. The present study focuses attention on the physico-chemical parameters of the effluents from SIPCOT industrial complex, Cuddalore. Temperature, pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen (DO), nutrients (inorganic phosphate, reactive silicate, nitrite, nitrate) calcium, magnesium, ammonia, sulphide and cyanide were estimated from six industrial effluents for the period of eight months (Oct 2002 to May 2003). This study concludes that the river Uppanar is polluted and the pollution is a result from the discharge of effluents by the companies, factory and materials from other anthropogenic sources.
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