Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Cengiz KOÇ

Konular:İnşaat Mühendisliği

DOI:10.28948/ngumuh.444731

Anahtar Kelimeler:Physicochemical parameters,Water Quality Index,Drinking water quality,Bodrum Peninsula,Turkey

Özet: Bodrum peninsula is an important tourism center of Turkey. This study is conducted to assess the quality of blended raw waters provided from Çamköy groundwater wells, Mumcular and Geyik dams in terms of Water Quality Index (WQI) with analysis of 22 physicochemical parameters. WQI is regarded as the most effective method of measuring the water quality. The WQI values for the study were calculated as 84.92 and 91.11, respectively. The WQI scores were found ‘very poor’ for drinking water sources of Bodrum peninsula. The parameters such as Turbidity, Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Chemical Oxygen Demand, and Total Hardness were found high above the permissible limit values. The higher values of parameters increase the calculated WQI values. The existing water sources in the Bodrum peninsula need to be treated before used as drinking water. Therefore, the blended raw waters should be treated with the processes include in aeration, coagulation, flocculation, precipitation, filtering and disinfection.

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