ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIALLY OIL IMPACTED AREAS IN DUBURU, KHANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, RIVERS STATE

ABSTRACT

 

The environmental assessment of potentially oil impacted areas in duburu, khana local government area, rivers state is a research carried out on the five sites to showprimary source of contamination is considered to be the crude oil which may have either been spilled through sabotage or leakage from the existing oil wells and pipelines resulting to the contamination of surface and subsurface soil and water.

The oil impacted areas or spilled areas has affected the habitant of duburu and the nearby communities;

Directly and indirectly either through consumption of harvested crops products from the impacted areas and domestic and non-domestic animalsas food, and drinking of domestic or portable water which has been contaminated poses to be  hazardous and risky to the human health in general, and also commercially it has made the cost of living and standard of living high because instead of over 85% percent of foods are bought from other communities which are not affected.

Different researches has shown promising results and methods  with respect to remediation of oil impacted areas: s

 

Detailed Quantitative RiskAssessment (DQPA), Risk Assessment Matrix, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH), Benzene, Toluene, Ethyle-benzene and Xylene (BTEX), e.t.c. were used for the assessmentof the successful completion of this word.