• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.520-538
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• 2019

In this study, it was proposed that a method of setting the target water quality for TOC using the watershed model and the load duration curves to manage non-biodegradable organics in the total water load management system. To simulate runoff and water quality of the watershed, the HSPF model is used which is appropriate for urban and rural areas. Additionally, the load duration curve is used to reflect the variable water quality correlated with various river flow rates in preparing the TMDL plans in the U.S. First, the model was constructed by inputting the loads calculated from the pollutant sources in 2015. After the calibration and verification process, the water quality by flow conditions was analyzed from the BOD and TOC simulation results. When the BOD achieved the target water quality by inputting the target year loads for 2020, the median and average values of TOC were proposed for the target water quality. The provisional method of TOC target water quality for the management of non-biodegradable organics, which is one of the challenges of the total water load management system, was considered. In the future, it is expected to be used as basic data for the conversion of BOD into TOC in the total water load management system.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.465-473
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• 2010

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of EFDC hydrodynamic result on the WASP7.3 water quality modeling result in accordance with the change of number of grid for the dam reservoir to be constructed. The simulated flow and BOD, T-N and T-P loads by the HSPF watershed model was used for boundary conditions and the hydrodynamic modeling results was linked with WASP model to predict future water quality after dam construction. The scenarios for EFDC modeling were composed of Scenario 1(141 grid cells) and Scenario 2(568 grid cells). The results of Scenario 2 showed that BOD, T-N, T-P and Chl-a concentrations were decreased 0.073mg/L(8.5%), 0.032mg/L(2.6%), 0.003mg/L(6.8%), 0.644mg/L(4.2%) compared with those of Scenario 1, respectively. As number of grid cell increased, water quality concentrations were decreased and also it caused the longer running time. Therefore, this study suggests that the consideration of the geometry of water body is more important than the number of grid cells for the prediction of water quality of a dam reservoir in EIA.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.229-243
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• 2013

Hydrological simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF) model was used to simulate streamflow and snow depth at Pyengchang watershed. The selected Global Climate Models (GCMs) provided by the Coupled Model Intercomparision Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) were utilized to evaluate streamflow and snow depth driven by future climate scenarios, including A1, A1B, and B1. Bias-correlation and temporal downscaling processes have been performed to minimize systematic errors between GCMs and HSPF. Based on simulated monthly streamflow and snow depth after calibration, the results indicate that HSPF performs well. The correlation coefficient between the observed and simulated monthly streamflow is 0.94. Snow depth simulations also show high correlation coefficient, which is 0.91. The results indicate that snow depth in 2018 at Pyongchang winter olympic venues will decrease by 17.62%, 9.38%, and 7.25% in January, February, and March respectively, based on streamflow realizations induced by all GCMs ensembles.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.73-82
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is the evaluation of the impact of increase in impervious areas due to urbanization on the pollutant discharge using the HSPF model at Musim watershed. Model calibration and validation were performed based on the observed data 2015 and 2014, all simulation items have been successfully simulated such as flow, BOD, and TP. The land cover map used in the model reflected on the land use status of the Musim watershed in 2015 and the application of the development areas and locations. As a result of simulation, during rainfall daily pollutant load with the increased impervious land increased more than that before the development. However, the pollutant load decreased during the non-rainfall time. Annual pollutant load in rainfall time was significantly higher than that in non-rainfall time, BOD and TP increased. The simulation of non-point source pollutant load was applied under two assumptions, such as the increased area of impervious land and the non-change number of point source load before and after development. As the result of a simulation, the non-point source pollutant load after development was bigger than those before development. It was necessary to take measures to control non-point source pollution at the consideration status of development.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.99-110
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• 2023

Non-point source (NP) pollutants in an agricultural landuse are discharged from a large area compared to those in other land uses, and thus effective source control measures are needed. To develop appropriate control measures, it is necessary to quantify discharge load of each source and evaluate the degree of water quality improvement by implementing different options of the control measures. This study used Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) to quantify pollutant discharge loads from different sources and effects of different control measures on water quality improvements, thereby supporting decision making in developing appropirate pollutant control strategies. The study area is the Gyeseong river watershed in Changnyeong county, Gyeongsangnam-do, with agricultural areas occupying the largest proportion (26.13%) of the total area except for the forest area. The main pollutant sources include chemical and liquid fertilizers for agricultural activities, and manure produced from small scale livestock facilities and applied to agriculture lands or stacked near the facilities. Source loads of chemical fertilizers, liquid fertilizers and livestock manure of small scale livestock facilities, and point sources such as municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), community WWTPs, private sewage treament plants were considered in the HSPF model setup. Especially, NITR and PHOS modules were used to simulate detailed fate and transport processes including vegitation uptake, nutrient deposition, adsorption/desorption, and loss by deep percolation. The HSPF model was calibrated and validated based on the observed data from 2015 to 2020 at the outlet of the watershed. The calibrated model showed reasonably good performance in simulating the flow and water quality. Five Pollutants control scenarios were established from three sectors: agriculture pollution management (drainge outlet control, and replacement of controlled release fertilizers), livestock pollution management (liquid fertilizer reduction, and 'manure management of small scale livestock facilities) and private STP management. Each pollutant control measure was further divided into short-term, mid-term, and long-term scenarios based on the potential achievement period. The simulation results showed that the most effective control measure is the replacement of controlled release fertilizers followed by the drainge outlet control and the manure management of small scale livestock facilities. Furthermore, the simulation showed that application of all the control measures in the entire watershed can decrease the annual TN and TP loads at the outlet by 40.6% and 41.1%, respectively, and the annual average concentrations of TN and TP at the outlet by 35.1% and 29.2%, respectively. This study supports decision makers in priotizing different pollutant control measures based on their predicted performance on the water quality improvements in an agriculturally dominated watershed.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.903-909
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was evaluated on the applicability of Load Duration Curve Method (LDC Method) using HSPF watershed model and sampling data for efficient TMDLs in Korea. The LDC Method was used for assessment pollutant characteristics in watershed and water quality variation in each water flow level. Load Duration Curve is applied for judge the level of impaired water-body and can be estimated the impaired level by pollutant, such as BOD, T-N, and T-P in this study depending on variation of stream flow. As a result, BOD, T-P was usually exceed the standard value at low flow and dry hydrologic period. Improvement of effluent concentration from WWTP and riparian buffer protection zone are effective to improve the water quality. T-N showed the worst condition at mid-range hydrologic period and moist hydrologic period. Therefore, soil erosion control program and BMPs for non-point source pollution control is effective for recovery the water quality, which can be useful method for management of water quality in the plan of recovery water quality spontaneously. Applicability of LDC Method was evaluated in the Nakbon A watershed. However, we need to consider more detailed and accumulated data set such as accurate GIS data and detail pollution data, and WWTP discharge water quality data for accurate evaluation of watershed. Overall, The LDC Method is adequate for evaluation of watersheds characteristics, and its application is recommended for watershed management and TMDL Implementation.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.83-96
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• 2017

This study presented a surface water quality modeling framework considering the spatial resolution of pollutant load estimation to better represent stream water quality characteristics in the Saemangeum watershed which has been focused on keeping its water resources sustainable after the Saemangeum embankment construction. The watershed delineated into 804 sub-watersheds in total based on the administrative districts, which were units for pollutant load estimation and counted as 739 in the watershed, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and agricultural structures such as drainage canal. The established model consists of 7 Mangyung (MG) sub-models, 7 Dongjin (DJ) sub-models, and 3 Reclaimed sub-models, and the sub-models were simulated in a sequence of upstream to downstream based on its connectivity. The hydrologic calibration and validation of the model were conducted from 14 flow stations for the period of 2009 and 2013 using an automatic calibration scheme. The model performance to the hydrologic stations for calibration and validation showed that the Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient (NSE) ranged from 0.66 to 0.97, PBIAS were -31.0~16.5 %, and $R^2$ were from 0.75 to 0.98, respectively in a monthly time step and therefore, the model showed its hydrological applicability to the watershed. The water quality calibration and validation were conducted based on the 29 stations with the water quality constituents of DO, BOD, TN, and TP during the same period with the flow. The water quality model were manually calibrated, and generally showed an applicability by resulting reasonable variability and seasonality, although some exceptional simulation results were identified in some upstream stations under low-flow conditions. The spatial subdivision in the model framework were compared with previous studies to assess the consideration of administrative boundaries for watershed delineation, and this study outperformed in flow, but showed a similar level of model performance in water quality. The framework presented here can be applicable in a regional scale watershed as well as in a need of fine-resolution simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.328-332
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• 2006

환경모델링 기법은 비선형 오염유출현상을 구조화하여 배출특성 규명 및 정책대안의 영향예측 도구로서 활용도가 증가하고 있다. 반면 복잡한 입력 파라미터의 구성은 모형운영에 있어 비정량적 수치를 적용할 수 있는 가능성을 내포하고 있다. 이러한 한계성을 극복하기 위해 최근 들어 GIS와 정보기술의 연계를 통한 자료관리 및 모형 매개변수 산출을 위한 연구들이 활발히 진행 중에 있다. GIS-모델링 분야의 기술적 성장에도 불구하고 정보구축의 시점, 주기, 구축 형태 등의 통일화가 이루어지지 않았다. 따라서 BASINS과 같은 기 구축된 정보 분석체계를 사용하고자 할 때 단위사업별로 구축된 공간정보의 구조해석을 다시 수행해야 하는 문제를 지니고 있다. 이는 구축된 정보를 사용하여 해석하고자 하는 주체가 분명하지 않고, 분석모델에서 요구하는 입력 자료의 구조를 명확하게 해석할 수 있는 정보기술과 분석기술의 연계부족으로 발생한 문제이다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 NGIS사업을 통해 축척된 지형공간 데이터베이스와 GIS의 공간분석기능을 연계하여 유역 오염원 기상 공간정보의 관리, 유역 오염유출모형인 HSPF(Hydrologic Simulation Program-Fortran)의 운영정보 생성을 지원하는 지능형 정보관리시스템을 개발하는데 있다. 주 연구내용은 시스템 분석 및 설계, 기초 데이터 수집과 DB 구축, 지형 매개변수 산정을 위한 GIS-HSPF의 통합 인터페이스 구축이다. 개발된 KBASIN-HSPF는 EPA에 의해 개발된 BASIN의 유역분할, 하천망생성, 지형특성계수 산정 기능과 함께 우리나라의 지형.오염원.기상정보의 저장구조를 고려한 데이터 모델링, Tissen망에 준한 강우자료 생성 그리고 HSPF 모형운영정보 산정 및 전환기능을 포함하고 있다. KBASIN-HSPF는 유역기반 점.비점오염원 정보를 통합 관리하고자 하는 오염총량관리제의 기술적 정보관리 환경으로 활용가능하며, 기존의 오염유출모델링을 위해 자료준비부터 정보연계, 모형운영까지 분산된 환경에서 수행되었던 것을 통합환경하에서 진행함으로써 정보의 질적보장과 정보전환의 표준화방안을 제시하는 정보분석시스템이다.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.972-978
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• 2009

This study modifies the present total maximum daily load (TMDL) system of Ministry of Environment and applies to the Anyangcheon watershed. Hydrologic Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) model is used to simulate both runoff and non-point source pollution, simultaneously, instead of QUAL2E. The drought flow (355th daily flow) is proposed for the target water quantity since it is easier to satisfy low flow (275th daily flow) for the target water quality than drought flow. The increase of discharge is more than the increase of pollutant load except for the period under low flow. The measured unit loads for non-point source are used to consider the regional runoff characteristics. The measured water quantity and quality data are used since the ministry of environment supports only water quality. This analysis results show some reasons for the improvement of the present TMDL system of Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.204-204
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• 2011

최근에 들어 도시화와 이상기후의 영향으로 유역에서의 유출특성과 오염물질 발생특성이 변화하고 있어 이에 따라 체계적인 유역 관리가 요구되고 있다. 우리나라는 하천 및 호소에 대한 수질 관리를 생활하수, 공장폐수 등 점오염원을 중심으로 수질관리정책 및 대책을 추진하여 왔으나, 오염물질의 상당량은 비점오염원에서 유발되고 있다. 또한 오염총량제의 실시 이후 국내에서는 비점오염원 관리의 중요성이 점오염원에 비해 상대적으로 높아짐으로서 유역수질모델링의 중요성을 인식하고 있으며, 비점오염원에 관련된 연구도 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이를 위해 유역의 유출 및 수질 분석을 효율적으로 하기 위해 유역간 물질의 교환 및 전달이 유역 규모에 따라 얼마나 높은 정확성을 나타내는지를 분석하고 이를 검토하여 효과적인 유역수질모델링의 방법이 제시되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 통합적 수질관리의 필요성 증대에 따라, 유역 내 수문 순환 및 비점 오염원의 발생 거동을 정량적으로 분석할 수 있는 HSPF(Hydrologic Simulation Program - Fortran) 모형을 통해 오염총량 단위유역을 각각의 소유역으로 순차적으로 모의하여 검 보정을 수행 후 그 결과로 계산된 매개변수들을 단위유역 전체에 대한 분석에 입력하여 수행한 모의 결과와 비교 평가하였다. 또한, 이를 바탕으로 비점오염원에 의한 유역 내 하천 수질 영향도를 파악하였다. 유량 및 수질해석을 위하여 남강유역의 2004년부터 2007년까지 강우와 기상자료, 유량과 오염원 자료를 수집하여 입력 자료를 구축하였다. 또한, 대상유역에 해당되는 환경기초시설의 방류 유량 및 수질을 유입시킴으로써 HSPF모의가 진행되었다. 하천수질에 영향을 줄 수 있는 비점오염원은 강우 및 기상 관련 자료의 입력을 통하여 유역 내 유출 조건의 초기입력을 수행하였으며, 강우 입력에 따른 유출에 영향을 고려하기 위하여 토지이용 및 토양도를 고려하였다. 그리고 유역의 규모를 고려하였을 때 오염총량 단위유역의 유역 규모에 따라 모의를 실시한 결과를 바탕으로 HSPF 모형의 정확성 여부를 판단하여 정확성이 높은 방법을 선택할 수 있도록 하였다. 모의결과 소유역을 순차적으로 모의한 결과(CaseA)가 전체유역을 모의한 결과(CaseB)보다 실측치와 더 높은 상관계수를 나타냄을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서의 평가방법을 바탕으로 유역수질모델링이 이루어진다면 추후 비점오염원에 대한 효과적인 관리에 도움이 될 것이며, 모니터링 기법 및 GIS기반 유역관리모델 개발, 4대강 비점오염원 최적관리기법 연구 등에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.