POLLUTION AND SELF PURIFICATION STUDIES OF RIVER ROMI, CHIKUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KADUNA STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Angwan Romi is a place in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State in Nigeria at 10 degrees 25'48" north of the equator and 7 degrees 25'12" east of the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Romi River is a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land. It is on Latitude 10.45 decimal degrees, Longitude 7.37 decimal degrees, DMS Latitude 10 degrees 27 min 0 sec, DMS Longitude7 degrees 22 min 0.012 sec. Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM): LS25. The people living in Angwan Romi village and environ use the water of River Romi to supplement their daily water demand which has not been met by government. They may be at health risk as a result of usage of Romi River water. The study was carried out to determine the extent of pollution and self purification of River ROMI. The study covered a distance of 15Km from the point of effluent discharge from the Kaduna Refining Petrochemical Company to the point of outflow into the River Kaduna. The data was collected from July 2009...