you can see articles publisher by Hamdaoui walid in Sciencedirect. He has a lot of researches in the fied of new absorbents for water and wastewater polluted by heavy metals.
@bharadwaj vemparala can u elabrote more how groundnut husks can be used to remove chromium its feasibiliy and the cost involved in doing such a project.
there s one good paper on arsenic removal by p ratna kumar and sanjeev chaudhari.....so u can also try electrocoagulation for the same.........and study the Cr removal...........
We had success using peat and active charcoal for CrVI sorption. In the case of peat, CrVI is reduced to CrIII and retained in a stable coordination complex...