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http://dx.doi.org/10.11614/KSL.2012.45.4.378

Spatio-temporal Water Quality Variations at Various Streams of Han-River Watershed and Empirical Models of Serial Impoundment Reservoirs  

Jeon, Hye-Won (Department of Biological Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Choi, Ji-Woong (Department of Biological Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
An, Kwang-Guk (Department of Biological Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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The objective of this study was to determine temporal patterns and longitudinal gradients of water chemistry at eight artificial reservoirs and ten streams within the Han-River watershed along the main axis of the headwaters to the downstreams during 2009~2010. Also, we evaluated chemical relations and their variations among major trophic variables such as total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and chlorophyll-a (CHL-a) and determined intense summer monsoon and annual precipitation effects on algal growth using empirical regression model. Stream water quality of TN, TP, and other parameters degradated toward the downstreams, and especially was largely impacted by point-sources of wastewater disposal plants near Jungrang Stream. In contrast, summer river runoff and rainwater improved the stream water quality of TP, TN, and ionic contents, measured as conductivity (EC) in the downstream reach. Empirical linear regression models of log-transformed CHL-a against log-transformed TN, TP, and TN : TP mass ratios in five reservoirs indicated that the variation of TP accounted 33.8% ($R^2$=0.338, p<0.001, slope=0.710) in the variation of CHL and the variation of TN accounted only 21.4% ($R^2$=0.214, p<0.001) in the CHL-a. Overall, our study suggests that, primary productions, estimated as CHL-a, were more determined by ambient phosphorus loading rather than nitrogen in the lentic systems of artificial reservoirs, and the stream water quality as lotic ecosystems were more influenced by a point-source locations of tributary streams and intense seasonal rainfall rather than a presence of artificial dam reservoirs along the main axis of the watershed.
Keywords
empirical model; Han-River watershed; lentic ecosystem; phosphorus; point-source;
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