Abstract
Anthropogenic activities in Urban cities of developing countries has resulted soil pollution and groundwater contamination. Therefore the objective of this paper is test suitability of soil for solid waste dumping based on Physio-chemical parameters and textural analysis of soil around periphery of Davanagere Urban city.The city experiences semi-arid climate with a moderate rainfall located in Central Karnataka, India. Textural analysis indicated that soil is silt loam with moderate high permeability (10-3 to 10-4 cm/sec).The collected soil sample terminate slightly less in Liquid Limit and more in Plastic Limit (Liquid Limit>50% and Plastic Limit
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