In recent years, economic boom in fast developing countries has been witnessed with spectacular progress in industrialization and concurrent progress in modern agriculture. Such development is however not without any socio-political and environmental side effects. Due to industrialization and urbanization, pollution in various areas has been increased day by day. So in this report we discussed about the soil pollution because of hydrocarbons. This report was carried out to compare the hydrocarbons effect on soil due to various hydrocarbon activities. Petrol bunks of different places like pendurthi, seethammadhara, barex, diesel shed near 104 junction, maddilapalem, and inside diesel shed of Visakhapatnam were recognized and soil samples were collected. These samples are sieved and subjected to systematic analysis like pH, organic carbon, moisture content, shear strength, bulk density, texture and water holding capacity. Based on the values of the physico-chemical parameters, the quality of soil was inferred and discussed.
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