• Debabrata Nandi
• Dr. Pramod Chandra Sahu
• Dr. Shreerup Goswami

Abstract: This research study has been aimed to assess the groundwater within the Bamanghati subdivision area.Quality of groundwater is essential for its suitability for various purposes like drinking, industrial and agricultural. Knowledge of water quality is also essential for rational management of water resources. It is clearly understood that the presence of different ions in the groundwater is due to the nature of different rock types with which groundwater comes in contact during its movement and storage. In the Gibbs (1970) diagram all the groundwater samples fall within the rock dominance field indicating that the overall lithology of the area is responsible for different constituent ions in the groundwater of the area. From the study of the suitability of the groundwater from irrigational point of view, most of the well waters in the study area fall under the low and medium salinity category. So,water can be used for plants with moderate salt tolerance without special practices for salinity control With respect to SAR, EC and Percent Sodium, RSC Values, PI, Magnesium Hazard and Potential Soil Salinity, all the groundwater samples fall within the excellent to good category for irrigation except a very few cases. The groundwater of the study area represents different hydro geochemical facies such as Ca-HC03 and Ca-CI. But Ca- HC03 in the most dominating facies which is evidenced from the hydrogeochemical facies map and the spatial concentration diagrams (3-dimensional). From the Piper's Trilinear Diagram, it is evident that most of the waters in the study area fall in the sub-areas 4 and 5 of the diamond-shaped field. The water samples falling in the subarea 4 indicates that strong acids exceed weak acids.

Index Terms – Groundwater, Water Quality, Agriculture Use and Industrial use

"Geochemical Assessment of Groundwater Quality for Its Suitability for Drinking and Irrigation Purpose in Bamanghati Subdivision of Mayurbhanj District, Odisha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.206-221, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902628.pdf

"Geochemical Assessment of Groundwater Quality for Its Suitability for Drinking and Irrigation Purpose in Bamanghati Subdivision of Mayurbhanj District, Odisha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp206-221, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902628.pdf