Electrical Resistivity Survey For ground water At Eye Zheba Village, Off Bida- Minna Road

Abstract

The paper titled ‘’ Electrical Resistivity Survey For ground water’’ at EL-HALAL farms, covered an area of about 10Km, located at Eye Zheba Village along Minna-Bida Road, located on latitude 6.00 and 6 7 west longitude 9 3 and 9 10 North. As a result of water problem in Bida and it environs, the people living in this environment suffered a lot due to lack of portable drinking water and water for domestic use. A Geophysical survey carried out, employed the Schlumberger Array method in which current were sent beneath the earth surfaces, this was done at various points and the data collected. The area revealed three lithological formation in some places while in some places five. With the lowest Resistivity found to be 6.85 ohm meter and the highest Resistivity was 12,774.46 ohms meter. The lithological formation includes the sandstone, clayey sandstones, sand clay and ferruginisef sandstones. Since this is a sedimentary area drilling is expected to be deep down to a depth of about 70-75m.