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Assessment of River Water Quality Contaminated by Abandoned Mine and Hot-Spring using Principal Component Analysis  

Lee Jae-Young (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida)
Sato Yuko (Department of Environmental Engineering, Hokkaido University)
Kang Meea (Department of Environmental Engineering, Andong National University)
Jeong Gyo-Cheol (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Andong National University)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.15, no.4, 2005 , pp. 381-390 More about this Journal
Abstract
S City depends on the T River as source water for water supply. Arsenic and boron from the hot-spring waste-water discharged from the hot-spring spa resort and emerging from the fractures of bedrock of the river have been prevalent contaminant of the T River water. This research was conducted to propose the simple and quick surrogate parameter for water quality management easily. And through making hexa-diagram of principal ions in the water samples, existing state of the water and influence of the human activity or geological origin can be figured out. As a results of characteristics of the T River water quality using principal component analysis, the contributory percentages of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd principal components were $40.80\%,\;21.40\%\;and\;11.31\%$, respectively. Therefore it was clarified that the quality of the T River water could be explained by these three principal components. Concentration of the chloride ion, which is one of the characteristics of the hot-spring water, was well correlated to both arsenic and boron concentrations. Hence concentrations of the arsenic and boron in the raw water of the water reatment plant can be predicted by the measurement of concentration of the chloride ion.
Keywords
abandoned mine; hot-spring; T river; principal component analysis; water quality;
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