• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.57 no.2
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• pp.111-125
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• 2024

The study has examined alterations in groundwater quality by investigating the influence of rainfall on electrical conductivity (EC) and nitrate concentration in the groundwater of the Geum River Basin in South Korea. Mann Kendall and Sen's Slope estimator were employed to analyze the trends and estimate the trend's magnitude. The administrative map of the study area was utilized to assess the trends of these parameters within each administrative region. Seventeen years (from 2005 to 2021) of data on EC, groundwater levels (GWL), precipitation, and six years (from 2015 to 2020) of nitrate concentration data were utilized for this analysis. The results indicate that, in most administrative regions, there has been an increase in nitrate concentration, and EC, whereas precipitation has seen a slight decrease in a downstream and an increasing trend in upstream. The correlation coefficients calculated between these parameters reveal that there is no direct impact of precipitation on nitrate and EC, but a negative correlation was observed between GWL and EC. The most significant increasing trend in nitrate concentration was observed in two districts (Iksan and Gunsan ), which correspond to regions with significant agricultural activity; about 50% of these districts area are used for agricultural activities.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.163-176
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• 1993

A methodology based on the influence coefficient algorithm was established for the optimal calibration of QUAL2E reaction coefficients. It was applied to the stream sections from the Chungju Dam to the downstream end of the South Han River. A water budget analysis using the monthly records of reservoir inflows and outflows in 1990 was made to determine tributary inflows. Estimated tributary inflows were used, together with the monthly records of water quality measurements in 1990, for the calibration of reaction coefficients. Simulated quality constituents were chl.a. nitrogen cycles, phosphorus cycles. BOD and DO. A sensitivity analysis was made to determine significant reaction coefficients, and as a result 11 reaction coefficients were selected as calibration parameters. The influence coefficient algorithm applied to the calibration of QUAL2E reaction coefficients proved to be a useful one yielding a rapid convergence. Each calibration parameter converged to an optimum value within 3 iterations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.318-318
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• 2018

충주댐 하류 남한강 본류에서는 매년 봄철 지속되는 가뭄으로 인한 유량감소와 과다한 영양염류 유입으로 인해 부영양화 현상이 빈번히 발생하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 남한강 본류로 유입되는 주요 하천(섬강, 청미천, 양화천, 복하천)을 대상으로 중점관리가 필요한 우심하천 및 주요 오염원을 선별하고자 갈수기 오염부하 특성 및 남한강 본류에 대한 기여율을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 갈수기 조건에서의 오염부하 및 기여율은 섬강에서 BOD5 852.0 kg/day(41.3%), T-P 59.0 kg/day(56.8%)로 가장 높게 나타났으며, 유량 및 수질 모니터링 기간 내 발생한 점 기저비점 오염부하가 남한강 본류에 미치는 기여율 BOD5 52.8%, COD 52.1%, TOC 53.0%, SS 41.3%, T-N 47.7%, T-P 30.0%, Chl-a 47.8%로 섬강에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 그리고 전국오염원조사 자료를 바탕으로 산정된 수질항목에 대한 오염원별 전체 배출부하 또한 섬강에서 가장 높게 나타났으며, 토지계, 생활계, 축산계 오염원 순으로 높은 비중을 차지하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 충주댐 하류 남한강 본류 갈수기 수질을 효율적으로 개선하기 위해서는 섬강을 중점적으로 점오염원 관리뿐만 아니라, 기저비점을 통합적으로 관리하기 위한 대책 마련이 필요할 것으로 판단된다. 향후 본 연구의 결과는 극한 가뭄이 지속되는 상황을 고려한다면, 충주댐 하류 남한강 본류 갈수기 수질오염 개선에 활용될 실효성 있는 대책 및 유역관리 정책 수립에 대한 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이라 사료된다.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.535-547
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• 2021

Aggregate is an essential construction material, and the demand is increasing every year. Aggregate has different properties in each region, and it is difficult to supply it over long distances due to its quantity and weight. For the stabilization of aggregate supply and demand, regional aggregate resource surveys have been conducted since 1993 in Korea. In this study, an aggregate resource survey was conducted in Goyang City to understand the characteristics of aggregate distribution as part of the annual regional aggregate resource survey in 2020. Goyang City has a high mountainous area to the east, and the southwestern part shows a topography where a wide flatland develops. It has 18 small streams originated from the eastern mountainuos area and 1 large stream Han River. The drilling data shows that thickness of the Quaternary deposits tend to deepen toward the south. The aggregate reserves are relatively abundant, the depth of the aggregates are relatively deep. Changes in the depth of the Quaternary deposits and the amount of aggregate in Goyang are seems to be closely related to the activities of the Han River rather than the sedimentation characteristics from the upstream to the downstream of the small streams. This characteristics show a similar tendency to the distribution of aggregates in adjacent regions to the west coast in Korea. Therefore, the regions that close to west coast have a high probability of aggregate reserves around relatively large-scale streams flowing into the west coast.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.978-988
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• 2005

A three-dimensional dynamic model was applied to Lake Paldang, Han River in this study. The model was calibrated and verified using the data measured under different ambient conditions. The model results were in reasonable agreements with the field measurements in both calibration and verification. Utilizing the validated model, we analyzed the spatial and temporal distributions of temperature, current, residence time, and spreading pattern of incoming flows within the lake. Relatively low velocity and high temperature were computed at the surface layer in the southern region of the Sonae island. The longest residence time within the lake was predicted in the southern region of the Sonae island and the downstream region of the South Branch. This can be attributed to the fact that the back currents caused by the dam blocking occur mainly in these regions. Vertical thermal profiles indicated that the thermal stratifications would be occurred feebly in early summer and winter. During early spring and fall, it appeared that there would be no discernible differences at the vertical temperature profiles in the entire lake. The vertical overturns, however, do not occur during these periods due to an influence of high discharge flows from the dam. During midsummer monsoon season with high precipitation, the thermal stratification was disrupted by high incoming flow rates and discharges from the dam and very short residence time was resulted in the entire lake. In this circulation patterns, the plume of the Kyoungan stream with smallest flow rate and higher water temperature tends to travel downstream horizontally along the eastern shore of the south island and vertically at the top surface layer. The model results suggest that the Paldang lake should be a highly hydrodynamic water body with large spatial and temporal variations.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.414-424
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• 2009

The research was to get a biological assessment on Bokha stream and Dal stream, using the physicochemical factors and the epilithic diatom from June, 2008 to March, 2009. As a result, Bokha stream showed high consistency of total phosphorus ($0.041{\sim}0.886\;mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$), and total nitrogen ($0.336{\sim}10.532\;mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$). Also, the concentration of BOD showed most of the sites polluted as $2{\sim}5\;mg\cdot}L^{-1}$ except for the upstream sites. However, excluding downstream sites and other few sites, Dal stream had very clean water quality having total phosphorus less than $0.06\;mg\cdot}L^{-1}$, and total nitrogen less than $2.0\;mg\cdot}L^{-1}$. Out of the 12 total sites, 98 taxa of epilithic diatoms appeared: 67 taxa from Bokha stream, and 78 taxa from Dal stream. The results of the water quality assessment showed that, Bokha stream, having TDI level over 80, was mostly $\alpha$-mesosaprobic, which indicates a severe pollution. On the other hand, Dal stream, having TDI level below 50, was examined to be xenosaprobic and $\alpha$-oligosaprobic, which indicates a clean water quality. The correlation between DAIpo and TDI measured to be high in correlation coefficent (0.83) from the result of correlation analysis. When the water quality is good, there is an inclination of getting high correlation between chemical and biological water quality assessment results. TDI, which uses numerous taxa of diatoms, showed more stability than DAIpo, which uses less amount of taxa of diatoms to get its result.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.46 no.7
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• pp.719-733
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• 2013

In this study, a watershed-based surface-water and groundwater integrated model, SWAT-MODFLOW was used to evaluate streamflow depletion induced by groundwater withdrawals and irrigation reservoirs for the Juksan-cheon watershed in South Korea. The streamflow responses to groundwater pumping and irrigation reservoirs were simulated under several different scenarios. The scenarios were (1) current pumping well withdrawals with reservoirs; (2) current pumping well withdrawals without reservoirs; (3) no pumping well withdrawals with reservoirs; (4) no pumping well withdrawals without reservoirs (natural condition). The simulated results indicated that the effects of groundwater pumping on streamflow depletion are a little more significant than those of irrigation reservoirs. Particularly, the groundwater withdrawals with irrigation reservoirs at current status (scenario 1) has induced the decrease of more than 20% in drought flow against the natural condition (scenario 4) at the outlet of the watershed. The specific drought flows through the main stream of Juksan-cheon watershed were simulated in order to assess the irrigation effects on downstream flows. It was found out that the specific drought flows are increasing as the distance from the reservoir increases due to the accumulation of the return flows to stream.