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http://dx.doi.org/10.14249/eia.2017.26.5.331

Water Quality Impact Assessment in Korea - Comparing with the Integrated Control of Pollutant-Discharging Facilities -  

Lee, Jong Ho (Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate, Cheongju University)
Cho, Jae Heon (Department of Health and Environment, Catholic Kwandong University)
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Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment / v.26, no.5, 2017 , pp. 331-343 More about this Journal
Abstract
The important changes in water environment management in Korea can be summarized as the enactment of Act on the Integrated Control of Pollutant-Discharging Facilities. Therefore water quality impact assessment should be reexamined and be revised. This study examines the present water quality impact assessment items (permissible discharge limits, standards for effluent water quality including Total Pollutant Load Management System) and considers the land use regulation for water quality conservation and NVZs(Nitrate Vulnerable Zones of EU and England). It also considers lately adopted standards(maximum discharge standards, permissible discharge standards, and marginal discharge standards etc) based on Act on the Integrated Control of Pollutant-Discharging Facilities and then compares Korean BAT and its counterpart control technology of U.S.A. And it also compares the items of water quality impact assessment with those of Integrated Control of Pollutant-Discharging Facilities, based on EIS reporting items. This study suggests five improvement measures for water quality impact assessment. First reflection of discharge impact analysis on impact prediction and assessment, second reflection of permissible discharge standards on agreed standards in the EIA procedure, third, reflection of diversified BAT on mitigation measures in the EIA procedure, forth introduction of land use regulation such as NVZs, finally strengthening linkage between water quality items and land use items etc.
Keywords
EIA; Agreed Standards; Integrated Control of Pollutant-Discharging Facilities; Permissible Discharge Standards; Discharge Impact Analysis;
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