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The spatiotemporal assessment of Surface Water Quality of River Ndakotsu (latitude 9°.34N and longitude 6°.30E), Lapai-Nigeria was conducted from November 2010 to October 2012, using standard methods. The ranges obtained for the Physico-chemical parameters were air temperatures (23oc- 35°C) water temperature (20°C -31°C), depth (8cm-63cm), Velocity (0.83cm/s-6.67cm/s), conductivity (10.28μScm/s-770.00μScm/s, pH (5.20-8.75), DO (0.28mg/l-6.70mg/l), BOD (1.10mg/l-31.35mg/l), water hardness (10.00mg/l-315.00mg/l), and total alkalinity (8.00mg/l-317.00mg/l). Water quality changes indicated significant differences (p<0.05) in water and air temperatures, depth, turbidity, velocity, conductivity, pH, water hardness, total alkalinity; Nitrate-Nitrogen and phosphate-phosphorus, but insignificant (p>0.05) in BOD5 and COD between the five sampled stations within the months. Higher values of these parameters were observed at the impacted station 3.
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Dadi-Mamud, N.J., Oniye, S.J., Auta, J., Ajibola, V.O. (2015). Spatiotemporal Assessment of Water Quality of River Ndakotsu in Lapai, Nigeria. In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45737-5_30
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