ANALYSIS ARTICLE | OPEN ACCESS Discovery 60, e1d1394 (2024) 1 of 9 Effect of Swali abattoir activities on the pollutants level of Ekole River of Swali-Yenegoa in relation to water quality standards Opololaoluwa Oladimarum Ogunlowo * , Churchill Ebinimitei Simon ABSTRACT Pollutants are hazardous to human health and environments, in view of this, the research investigated the effect of Swali abattoir activities on the pollutants level of Ekole river of Swali-Yenegoa in relation to water quality standards, and provided a spatial analytical framework for sustainable urban environmental management, through analysis of physicochemical parameters and the heavy metals characterization and statistical investigation in relationship with the standard was done using AVONA within MATLAB 2020B. The average values of the results for physicochemical parameters which includes; pH, electrical conductivity, temperature, sulphate, bicarbonate, dissolve oxygen, BOD, phosphate, Alkalinity and Acidity for Point B mean values are higher than Point B, while the mean values of heavy metals in the samples of Point A including iron, lead, cadmium, magnesium and chromium are higher than Point B. The finding revealed that all the physiochemical parameters and all the heavy metals investigated were above the recommended value of FEPA and WHO for potable water. The p value was significant at 6.2 × 10 −14 for point ‘A’ while at point ‘B’ it was at 2.58102 × 10 −7 which are quite lower than 0.05level significant tested. Keywords: Abattoir, Wastes, Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Physicochemical parameters 1. INTRODUCTION Water is critical for survival of living entities; this involves the surface and the sub-surface. The Surface water is significant because it is intensively use for domestic and industrial purposes. However, surface water is considered to have more microbial quality, because it is directly expose to sewage, indiscriminate dumping of refuse, several animal waste dump, waste from abattoir activities such as washing of the slabs and meat that is eventually drained into water, which is connected to shallow aquifers that makes it to be more susceptible to microbial pollution and inorganic pollution that has reportedly killed few DISCOVERY To Cite: Ogunlowo OO, Simon CE. Effect of Swali abattoir activities on the pollutants level of Ekole River of Swali-Yenegoa in relation to water quality standards. Discovery 2024; 60: e1d1394 doi: Author Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Federal University Otuoke, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria * Corresponding Author Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Federal University Otuoke, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Email: opololaoluwaijaola121@gmail.com Peer-Review History Received: 03 November 2023 Reviewed & Revised: 04/November/2023 to 02/January/2024 Accepted: 05 January 2024 Published: 09 January 2024 Peer-Review Model External peer-review was done through double-blind method. Discovery pISSN 2278–5469; eISSN 2278–5450 © The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)., which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. DISCOVERY SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY