• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.39 no.6 s.167
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• pp.511-520
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• 2006

Riverbank filtration is a natural process, using alluvial aquifers to remove contaminants and pathogens in river water for the production of drinking water. In Korea, most of the drinking water is supplied by surface water in-take. However, maintaining the quality of the drinking water becomes more and more difficult due to the increase of contamination. In riverbank filtration, the understanding of contaminant transport is an important task for the production of high quality drinking water and for the maintenance of facilities. In this paper, the transport behavior of hydrophobic organic contaminants is investigated when contaminants coexist with dissolved organic matter (DOM) and bacteria. In the developed model, the aquifer is thought of as a four phase system: two mobile colloidal phases, an aqueous phase, and a stationary solid matrix phase. The model equations are solved numerically for various situations. Results indicate that the presence of colloidal matters can enhance the mobility of contaminant significantly and that partitioning coefficients play an important role in the process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2002.09a
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• pp.339-342
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• 2002

지하수의 인공함양특성을 해석하기 위한 기초조사로서 대구 낙동강변의 강변여과수 개발지역인 충적층내에 부존하는 자연수의 지구화학적 특성을 살펴보았다. 특히 관측공 중 한 공에는 다중패커시스템 (Multi-packer system)을 설치하여 보다 체계적인 심도별 변화를 살펴보았다. 전체적으로 시추공 및 지표수에 대한 현장측정자료는 시기별로 큰 차이를 보이지 않지만 EC값의 경우 장기양수시험이 시작된 시기부터 급격히 낮아지는 경향을 보인다. 연구지역의 자연수는 Ca-HCO$_3$형에서부터 Ca-SO$_4$형에 속하며 특히 미량원소로서 Mn의 함량이 매우 높게 나타나고 있다. 인위적 오염의 지표인 NO$_3$함량은 현재 양수정에서 ~10mg/L 정도의 함량을 보이고 있으며 이밖에 다중패커가 설치된 관측공의 경우 최상부 (6m)에서 ~40mg/L의 높은 함량을 보여준다. 다중패커시스템에 의해 채취된 시료에 대해 심도에 따른 변화를 살려보면 Na, Ca, Mg, HCO$_3$의 함량이 심도에 따라 증가하고 있고, 음이온 중 Cl과 SO$_4$의 경우는 맨 하부구간일 18m에서 채취된 시료들이 시료채취시기와 관계없이 매우 낮은 값을 보인다. 미량원소의 경우 문제가 되는 Mn은 시료채취시기와 관계없이 중간구간인 13.5m구간에서 특히 많은 함량을 보이고 있다. 따라서 강변 여과수로 개발하기 위한 장기양수시험에 있어서 높은 Mn 및 NO$_3$함량에 대한 보다 체계적인 연구와 충적층을 구성하고 있는 모래층, 자갈층, 암반층에 대한 추가 연구가 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.123-128
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• 2005

Buk-myeon area in Changwon is located near Nakdong river and not short of quantity of river but the water quality and quantity is changed extremely by seasons, and Fe, Mn, Cu are found at the base rock underground water. Therefore, bank filtrated water developing is settled. At this research, Pilot-Plant is built to find out Fe and Mn are detected and eliminated by biological process and the ammonia is exceeded the drinking water quality criteria at the bank filtrated water while designing and facilitating the local water supply facilities at Buk-myeon area. Also, check results of the changed treatment process of automatic precipitating filter, which is producing and supplying drinking water, and analyzing the Biological Process Effectiveness by building and running Buk-myeon Water Treatment Facility, which could provide $10,000m^3/day$.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.436-441
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• 2013

An experiment using a 5 m-long sand column was performed to evaluate the resisting capability against micro-pollutants of the infiltration gallery, multi-purpose filtration pond and riverbank/bed filtration, of which the filtration distance is becoming increasingly shorter in Korea. Results suggested that the Korean riverbed sand contained significant amount of organics, resulting in a relatively vigorous adsorption of chloride ion on the sand surface. Results also indicated that while phenol was not detected in the column filtrate, both 1,4-dioxane and diazinon were exposed to adsorption by the sand as they moved through the column, decreasing their peak concentrations during the movement. It can be expected that the peak concentrations will diminish significantly in the practical scale due to its longer travel distance.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.129-138
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• 2013

River bank filtration has been considered as a promising alternative water management scheme, in which groundwater is extracted from an aquifer near a river after infiltration of the river water into the aquifer, thereby improving and maintaining the quality of water recovered. Iron (Fe) associated with sediment in contact with groundwater and infiltrating surface water is an important factor in determining the quality of water recovered from the pumping wells in river bank filtration. This study reports the results of Fe speciation in the aquifer sediment samples collected from different depths at the river bank filtration site in Changwon, studied using four different chemical extraction methods, namely, ferrozine, oxalate, HCl, and DCB methods. Overall, the results show that Fe(II) as well as the total Fe content decreases with depth down to ~20 m and then increases further below. This trend is consistent with the redox characteristics suggested by visual observation. The silt/clay size fraction (${\phi}$ < 62.5 ${\mu}M$) has up to 2~10 times more Fe compared with the sand size fraction (62.5 ${\mu}M$ < ${\phi}$ < 2 mm), depending on the extraction method. Of the four extraction methods, DCB solution extracted the most Fe from the sediment samples. The amounts of Fe extracted by the different extraction methods can be a good indicator of the redox conditions along the depth of the aquifer.

• 한국상하수도협회지
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• s.12
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• pp.98-109
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• 2005

• Water for future
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.78-84
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• 2001

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.334-339
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• 2013

A pilot-scale sand-box experiment simulating a lateral of collector well used in riverbank filtration was performed, and hydraulic head distributions along the lateral were measured according to the various drawdowns at the well. The results of this experiment were compared to the predicted values obtained using a theory previously developed by Kim in order for its validation. This theory predicts the head loss in a large-scale lateral given the loss in a small-scale one, and to have actual values for comparison, the results from a lab-scale experiment previously performed by Kim were employed. Comparing the experimental values to the extrapolated value indeed confirmed the validity of the theory. A procedure to determine the hydraulic head distribution of a practical-scale lateral was also presented applying the theory to the experimental result of this study in an effort to show the process of lateral design for riverbank filtration.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.14 no.4 s.41
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• pp.391-400
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• 2004

Excess pumping on the river bank filtration well causes the over drawdown in the protected area of bank, which may make many problems such as soil water contents, Pumping head in the irrigated land, and it needs more irrigation and development of the deeper irrigating well. In this study the installation of the artificial recharging well was suggested to reduce the excess draw down in the protected land. Artificial recharging wells were applied at the bank filtration site of Changwon city by using Visual-MODFLDW. The optimized conditions are calculated that the recharging well is located about loom apart from the pumping well, and the recharging rate is $5\%$ of the pumping yield.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.835-843
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• 2008

In Korea, riverbank filtration has drawn attention since 1990's as an alternative having potential to stably meet the ever-increasing water demand. Some cities located in the Nak-dong River Basin are currently supplying water through riverbank filtration. This research is on the application of riverbank filtration for stable water quality in Seoul. For this purpose, we have evaluated developable amount of water with riverbank filtration for the Han River. This paper focuses on the Kwangnaru site, which was selected through a systematic analysis in the companion paper. We have conducted groundwater modeling for a proposed system of wells and an artificial lake. In the Kwangnaru district, the river length to constitute a well system was identified to be about 1,200m, due to the topography and the field condition such as ecosystem preservation zone. After many design changes, it was found that the maximum developable amount of $23.36\;million\;m^3$/year could be obtained, when 16 pumping wells were built in every 80 meters along with an artificial lake upstream.