Monitoring and assessing air, water or soil quality play a very important role in:
- providing valuable information on the condition of the ecosystem
- identifying long-term trends in the air, water or soil quality
- identifying the existing or emerging quality problems
- designing pollution prevention / remediation programmes
- raising public awareness about pollution and its health impacts
CPREEC has its own monitoring & assessment programmes as a part of its lab services. The Centre regularly conducts water, air & soil analyses over a wide range of physical and chemical parameters.
MAJOR PROJECTS
AIR SURVEY
- Ambient air quality survey at Mettupalayam, Coimbatore District
- Ambient air quality survey at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district
- Ambient air quality survey at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- Ambient air quality survey at Mysore, Karnataka
- Ambient air quality at Kottayam, Kerala.
- Ambient air quality survey at Mamallapuram
- Ambient air quality survey at Alwarpet junction, Chennai
- Ambient air quality survey in Chennai
- Rapid environmental impact assessment of mini steel plants in Gummidipoondi Industrial Estate
WATER SURVEY
- Quality of Chennai corporation water a case study
- Quality of groundwater at Potheri village near Chennai
- Groundwater quality assessment at Nagapattinam and Kodiakkarai – after Tsunami
- Assessment of water quality at various lakes in and around Chennai
- Status of groundwater near Pallikaranai marsh
- Assessment of water quality in various temple tanks in Kanchipuram city
- Status of groundwater quality in Kanchipuram
- Status of water quality in and around Coimbatore City
- Survey of salt water intrusion in the coastal areas of Chennai city
- Water quality survey at Mamallapuram.
- Water quality survey at IIT, Chennai
- Water analysis at Ennore creek and Pulicat lake
- Analysis of wastewater samples collected from Mount-Poonamallee Road, Porur
- Assessment of water quality of various sources in southern parts of Tamilnadu
- Ground water analysis at Nagapattinam and Kodiakkarari, Tamilnadu
- Status of water quality at various sources of Ooty
- Water quality assessment in Thamaraparani River, Thirunelveli
- Status of ground water and surface water of Nellore town, Andhra Pradesh
- Water analysis at various sources in and around Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
- Ground water survey at Madhugiri, Karnataka
- Status of water quality in various temple tanks in Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka
SOIL SURVEY
- Soil quality survey at Pondicherry
- Experimental study on different soil media with reference to the suitability of Albizzia lebbek and Pongamia pinnata at Chitthanavasal sacred grove site
- Soil survey at Udhagamandalam
- Soil quality survey at Mamallapuram
- Soil quality survey at IIT, Chennai
- Soil quality survey at Padavedu, Thiruvannamalai District
- Soil quality survey at Maaranthai village, Tirunelveli District
- Soil quality survey at Vellakalpatty village, Trichy
NOISE SURVEY
- Noise level survey at Chennai city
- Noise level survey at Mamallapuram
- Noise level survey at Kottayam, Kerala.
- Noise level survey at Mysore, Karnataka
- Noise level survey at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district
OTHERS
- Analysis of various samples of vermicasting for Modern Nursery Range, Tamilnadu Forest Department, Dharmapuri
- Assessment of effluent Treatment Plants from industrial areas of Maraimalai Nagar and Gummidipoondi