• DOI:10.1007/S002540050091
Corpus ID: 129655232

Characterization of groundwater contamination using factor analysis

@article{Subbarao1996CharacterizationOG,
  title={Characterization of groundwater contamination using factor analysis},
  author={C. Subbarao and N. Subbarao and S. N. Chandu},
  journal={Environmental Geology},
  year={1996},
  volume={28},
  pages={175-180}
}

C. Subbarao, N. Subbarao, S. N. Chandu

Published 1996

Chemistry

Environmental Geology

Abstract The effluent contamination of groundwater at two industrial sites at Visakhapatnam, India, was studied using factor analysis. Thirty groundwater samples near a zinc smelter plant and 19 from the polymers plant were analyzed for specific conductance, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate, calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium. The data were subjected to R-mode factor analysis and the factor scores transferred to areal maps. While magnesium and sulfate are the dominant contaminants at the… CONTINUE READING

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