International Journal of Modern Research in Engineering & Management (IJMREM) ||Volume|| 2 ||Issue|| 5 ||Pages|| 30-40 || May 2019 || ISSN: 2581-4540 www.ijmrem.com IJMREM Page 30 Groundwater Study using Application of a Resistivity Survey of Typical Mine Site of Thario-Halepoto Village of Thar Desert 1, Engr. Junaid ur Rahman Memon, 2, Dr. Sheeraz Ahmed Memon, 3, Engr. Imran Aziz Tunio, 4, Engr. Love Kumar, 5, Engr. Kundan Kumar. 1,2,4,5 (Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management, Mehran UET, Jamshoro) 3 (Hydrology/GIS PMO –SBIP Sindh Irrigation Department Hyderabad Sindh) ------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------- This study is based on analysis and assessment for convenience of groundwater to village Thario-Halepoto of Tharparakar, to shows groundwater availability. The groundwater of Thario-Halepoto is roughly categorized into different type of classes on the bases of its hydro geomorphological and analysis condition of study area. In this study a detail electrical survey is carried out of Thario-Halepoto and three surrounded villages for preparing various thematic maps viz. Electrical resistivity, physical and chemical parameter of water were analyzed. Thario-Halepoto is mining area where various constructive and destructive activities are carried out, which may deteriorate quality of groundwater and soil fertility due to construction of big dam surrounding to Thario-Halepoto for storage of groundwater extracted from coal mining pit, which may also diminish dug well groundwater surrounding mining pit. Geoelectrical resistivity survey technique was used to study the availability of water layer currently. The resistivity meter (PASI Model 16GL-N) was used to collect the vertical electrical sounding (VES) resistivity data at different sites, followed by Schlumberger electrode configuration, the collected data were interpreted in terms of resistivity and the outputs were observed by dug well groundwater. The combination of VES data with dug well groundwater data provided useful information on subsurface hydrogeologic conditions by observed that geoelectrical resistivity of the layers containing groundwater ranged between 50 to 500 Ωm resistivity and VES criteria of fit groundwater quality for aquifer resistivity values of 300 to 350 Ωm was valid for the sites. The results indicate that VES survey has the potential to identify the layer containing water and groundwater depth KEYWORDS: Earth Electrical Resistivity, Dug well Groundwater, Mine area, subsurface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: Date, 29 April 2019 Date of Publication: 17. May 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION Diseases and shortage of food is mostly related with shortage of water or non/low supply of palatable water. Desert encroachment is result of climate change and become tough to control through afforestation due to low/non-accessibility water sources. Most of the societies mainly in rural areas depend on local water source, which is a generally potential source of diseases because of impurities, and deficiency of systematic prospecting, exploration & development of deep/shallow resources of groundwater, almost entire Tharparkar facing food, water shortage and diseases. This piece of work has focused on Analysis of groundwater potential zones and contamination using Electrical Resistivity, RS & GIS techniques in a typical mine area of Tharparkar. II. LOCATION OF THE STUDY AREA There are four different location are selected for earth resistivity data collection from district Tharparkar, as shown in Tharparkar District shown in Fig: 1. First earth resistivity data taken from village Sami Ji Dhani denoted by (P1), located at northing 24.757260, easting 70.369260, the second earth resistivity data taken from village Thario-Halepoto (P2) located at northing 24.732697, easting 70.353265, the third earth resistivity data taken from village Sehri Dars (P3) located at northing 24.757735, easting 70.384927, and the forth earth resistivity data taken from village New Village (P4) located at northing 24.723435, easting 70.3275525. these survey points are within and surrounded to coal mining Blocks numbers shown in figure as I, II, IIIB, IV, VI and VIII. Tharparkar is extreme southeastern part of Sindh Pakistan, and world’s most thickly populated deserts, residents of Tharparkar are primarily rely on limited agricultural products and by raising cattle, goats, camels, sheep and their flora and fauna are primarily at the mercy of rainwater (average 200 mm annual) [1], temperature