| Title |
A Study on the Water Quality Improvement of Major Tributaries in Seoul, Applying Watershed Evaluation Techniques |
| Authors |
심규현 ( Kyuhyun Shim ) ; 김경훈 ( Gyeonghoon Kim ) ; 임태효 ( Taehyo Im ) ; 김용석 ( Youngseok Kim ) ; 김성민 ( Seongmin Kim ) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.15681/KSWE.2021.37.1.32 |
| Keywords |
Flow duration curve; Load duration curve; Target water quality; TMDL; Watershed evaluation method |
| Abstract |
South Korea has been divided into quantities and water quality, and due to a revision of the Government Organization law in June 2018, the controversial water management system was integrated into the Ministry of Environment. The total Maximum Daily Loads System has been called the flower of water quality control, and since 2004, all three major river systems which have been introduced into the Han River system, despite its various difficult environments, and subsequently leading to all of the four major rivers undergoing obligatory implementation since 2013. Currently, the target TMDL (Han River Phase 1 and Other Water Systems Phase 3) for the 2020 stage has been implemented. The domestic TMDL established a basic plan for calculating the load which complies with the unit watershed’s target water quality, as well as an implementation plan for annual load management, both which have been institutionalized in order to evaluate load compliance on a repeated annual basis. Local governments ask external organizations to conduct investigations every year in order to assess the transition, which thereby requires tens of millions of won every year. Therefore, an assessment and management model that can be easily operated at the TMDL personnel level is required. In this study, when the Han river Water System TMDL was implemented in earnest, we confirmed the the water quality improvement effect when TMDL was introduced to major inflow tributaries (TancheonA, JungnangA, AnyangA) under the Seoul City’s jurisdiction through the use of the total amount control unit basin evaluation technique. By presenting customized management measures, we propose the guidelines that are necessary for determining more effective water environmental policies. |