Water is a vital natural resource in our life and production. Moreover, rivers which run through urban areas contribute them with ecological space and fresh atmosphere. However, most rivers now are being dramatically contaminated with not only black runoff but the emission of exhaust gas of H2S as a consequence of the decomposition of organic matter in the river's sediment, which also pollutes the regional residents. The researched area is the part of Nhue river running through Van Phuc silk village which receives different kinds of waste from residential areas around. The report has sampled and analyzed some basic properties of surface water and river's sediment layer, as well as. The selected criterias are SO3/4, DO, COD, BOD5 in the former and total orgamic mat1er(OC3, SO2- accwnulated in the later. The results illustrated that all of above criterias exceed the permission limits of surface water by Vietnamese standard (TCVN).