Journal of Global Ecology and Environment

Dhamra estuary region is located at latitude 20⁰46’09.74’’N and longitude 86⁰59’26.90’’E. Heavy metals and metalloids, while happening at higher fixations, become serious toxic substances for every single living life form including human. For example, an extreme amount of Mercury (Hg), Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), and Cadmium (Cd) components could be harmful to the living cells, and a drawn-out presentation to the body can cause illness of death. This study aimed to determine the concentrations of the heavy metals viz., Mercury (Hg), Vanadium (V), Chromium (Cr), Manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Molybdenum (Mo), and Cadmium (Cd) and also their distribution in the water collected from the eastern part of Bay of Bengal from four different estuary locations of Dhamra coast, Odisha. Overall, we found that heavy metal dominance in Dhamra estuary region was in order of Zn>Cu>Fe> V>Cr> Ni> Co> As>Mo> Mn>Pb> Hg> Cd. As most of the heavy metals were found in the surface water of Dhamra estuary,It may be due to  basically by two factors; the first one is the riverine influence through both Baitarani and Brahmani river. The second one is Dhamra port activities and fishing harbour.