ESTIMATION OF THE MINIMUM INSTREAM FLOWS FOR THE RIVERLINE AESTHETICS ON THE KEUM RIVER

  • Lee, Joo-Heon (Division of Construction Engineering, Joongbu University) ;
  • Jeong, Sang-Man (Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Hong, Il-Pyo (Water Resources & Environmental Engineering Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology) ;
  • Lee, Eun-Tae (Division of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Kyunghee University)
  • Published : 2000.10.01

Abstract

The method for estimating the minimum instream flows required for the riverline aesthetics, proposed by the Kim et al.(1996), has been applied to the main channel reach of the Keum river basin in Korea. To determine the minimum instream flows for eight main reaches at Keum river basin, six representative stations have been selected. This paper provides an analysis of influence on the riverline aesthetics, which is affected by change of physical components of river, by using the survey-based quantification method. The developed questionnaire based on the literature, and submitted to the 326 people who visited an each representative station. This surveying had been implemented in three times at each representative station and we had been selected a different flowrate at each implementation. The results of this analysis and survey have produced the relationship between the variation of physical components and riverline aesthetics. Survey results bout the flow comparison are summarized as follows. At the view of riverline aesthetics, most of the respondents re sensitive at the change of the flow velocity and they prefer high water level to low water level. Moreover whole respondents prefer to abundant stream flows and moderate flow velocity. The minimum flows for riverline aesthetics is estimated at each representative station by using the survey-based quantification method and the estimated results of some representative station are greater than mean monthly flow at each station. The result of the analysis appears that establishing minimum instream flows for riverline aesthetics is not only a technical problem but a legal problem. Therefore in the case of establishing the instream flows in the river, the estimated results have to be considered as relative standard.

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