| The city of destiny, Visakhapatnam is surrounded by beautiful Bay of Bengal on one side and about 72 large scale industries undertaken by public sector on other side. The city was glorified with its land marks Viz Visakhapatnam steel plant, ESSAR Steel, BHPV, Hindustan shipyard, Rastiya Ispat Nigam Limited, NTPC Power Project, Simhadri Thermal Power Project, National Mineral Development , Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd. The steel city is prone to effected by large number of industrial effluents though huge investments were allocated on the treatment plants, people are frequently experiences the problems with ground water. In this scenario we would like to present the total fluorides, chloride, nitrates and phosphates were estimated by random collection of ground water samples. In order to estimate leachates of the ground water the titrimetric methods were adopted. |