Heavy Metal Pollution Monitoring of Yamuna from Dak Patthar to Agra

With 14 sampling sites between Dak Patthar to Agra, first time an attempt is made to evaluate the heavy metals viz. Iron, Copper, Zinc, and Manganese in the Yamuna using Indices; Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI); Heavy Metal Evaluation Index (HEI), Contamination index (Cd), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Cluster analysis (CA).The average concentrations in parts per billion in the increasing order were Cu (292.7)> Fe (309.23) > Mn (475.15) >Zn (3643.9). Resultant average values of HPI 551.40, HEI 12.07, Cd 8.07 with Principal Component1's eigenvalue 55.49 and 2 clusters of sites based on metal concentration were obtained.