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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2006.11.2.082

A Tracer Study on Mankyeong River Using Effluents from a Sewage Treatment Plant  

Kim Jin-Sam (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Kim Kang-Joo (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Hahn Chan (Yooshin Engineering Coperation)
Hwang Gab-Soo (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Park Sung-Min (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Lee Sang-Ho (Department of oceanography Kunsan National University)
Oh Chang-Whan (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Park Eun-Gyu (Department of Geology)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.11, no.2, 2006 , pp. 82-91 More about this Journal
Abstract
We investigated the possibility of using effluents from a municipal sewage treatment plant (STP) as tracers a tracer for hydrologic studies of rivers. The possibility was checked in a 12-km long reach downstream of Jeonju Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant (JSTP). Time-series monitoring of the water chemistry reveals that chemical compositions of the effluent from the JSTP are fluctuating within a relatively wide range during the sampling period. In addition, the signals from the plant were observed at the downstream stations consecutively with increasing time lags, especially in concentrations of the conservative chemical parameters (concentrations f3r chloride and sulfate, total concentration of major cations, and electric conductivity). Based on this observation, we could estimate the stream flow (Q), velocity (v), and dispersion coefficient (D). A 1-D nonreactive solute-transport model with automated optimization schemes was used for this study. The values of Q, v, and D estimated from this study varied from 6.4 to $9.0m^3/sec$ (at the downstream end of the reach), from 0.06 to 0.10 m/sec, and from 0.7 to $6.4m^2/sec$, respectively. The results show that the effluent from a large-scaled municipal STP frequently provides good, multiple natural tracers far hydrologic studies.
Keywords
Tracer Study; Mankyeong River; Effluents from a Sewage Treatment Plant; Saemangeum; Conservative Tracer;
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