Environmental Impact of Ganpati Idol  Immersion on Water Quality of Two Lakes in  Mumbai

Mr. Sachin Bhagat; Miss.Anju Singh

Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2014

Environmental Impact of Ganpati Idol Immersion on Water Quality of Two Lakes in Mumbai

Mr. Sachin Bhagat , Miss. Anju Singh

Abstract :

Ganesh festival is celeated traditionally in the state of Maharashtra all in a big way as a social and community activity. It was started by Lokmanya Tilak, the objective of the festival was mainly to ing people together and promote freedom movement. Now with the passage of time, the celeation of Ganesh festival has changed. These activities cause concerns in terms of water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution etc. After predetermined time idol is immersed in water bodies every year. As the extent of idol immersion increases with increasing population with limited water bodies hence water pollution increases. The water bodies selected for the study was Aarey lake and Malad Lake of Goregaon and Malad, Mumbai.The immersion of idol of Lord Ganesh is a major source of contamination and sedimentation to the lake water. The analysis was carried out for pH, Density, specific gravity, DO, BOD, COD, Turbidity, Total hardness, Electric conductivity, Nitrates and Nitrites, Chlorinity & salinity parameters. The trend of increasing such Physiochemical parameters indicates that idol immersion affect the water quality of the lakes.