• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.65 no.2
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• pp.35-45
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• 2023

The DOR (Drainage outlet raising) in the paddy field has been suggested as one of the most important best management practices for the TMDL (Total maximum daily load) management in the technical guidelines by the NIER (National institute of environmental research). However, this method is underestimated and is not well adopted by local governments for the TMDL. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the unit load reduction equation according to the application of DOR in order to expand this equation. The original equation in the guideline was derived using the HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran) model for 1 year in Changnyeong. We analyzed the reduction effect of the original equation application by collecting additional long-term monitoring data from the Buan, Icheon, Iksan, and Jeonju. When comparing the reduction loads between the original equation and monitoring results, the evaluation results of the original equation were 11% of the monitoring analysis results, which was underestimated. This means that the original equation needs to be improved. For assessing the equation, the HSPF Paddy-RCH model was established according to the NI ER guideline and evaluated for applicability. The performance results of the model showed a reasonable range by the statistical criteria. Modified equations 1 and 2 were proposed based on the monitoring and modeling results. Modified equation 1 was the method of modifying the original equation's main factors, and modified equation 2 was the method of applying the non-point pollution reduction efficiency according to the rainfall class using the long-term modeling results. At the level of 58.6~64.6% of monitoring data, the difference between them could be further reduced compared to the original equation. The suggested approach will be more reasonable and practicable for decision-makers and will contribute to the TMDL management plans.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.284-284
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• 2021

비점오염원이란 도시, 도로 포장면, 무허가 가축시설, 무단 경작지 등의 불특정 장소에서 불특정하게 발생하는 오염원을 말한다. 이러한 비점오염원은 주로 강우특성(강수량, 강우강도, 강우지속시간 등)에 영향을 받는 특징을 가지고 있다. 강우시 비점오염원은 주로 불투수면적에서 오염물질이 주변 하천이나 호수에 유입되어 수생태계에 악영향을 미치게 된다. 비점오염원 중 도로 노면에서 발생하는 오염물질은 농지나 가축시설에서 발생하는 오염물질(부유물질 및 유기물) 등과 달리 주로 차량에서 발생하는 오염물질이 주를 이루고 있다. 강우시 토양의 수분포화가 충분히 이루어진 후 강우강도에 따라 유출이 발생하는 농경지와는 달리 도로 노면 유출수는 누적된 오염물질들이 강우시 한꺼번에 유출되기에 강우 초기 채수 간격을 짧게 하여 수질을 분석하는 것이 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 강원도 횡성군을 관통하는 영동고속국도의 횡성휴게소 불투수 노면에서 발생하는 비점오염물질을 알아보기 위해 모니터링 후 수질분석으로 노면 유출수 성분을 알아보고, 오염부하량을 계산하여 유량가중평균농도(EMC, Event Mean Concentration)와 초기세척효과(Mass First Flush effect)을 산정하였다. 이후 타 토지이용에서의 유출 특성과 고속국도 휴게시설에서 발생하는 비점오염물질의 유출 특성에 대해 분석하였다. 추후 본 연구자료는 고속국도와 주변 편의시설 설계시 주변 수생태계에 미치는 영향에 대한 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.443-443
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• 2021

국내 하천, 호소에 유입되는 오염물질 중 30% 이상이 농업 활동 등으로부터 기인한다. 정부 부처는 '04년부터 농업 비점오염원 저감 대책을 수립·시행하고 있으나 농촌 인구 고령화, 열악한 재정환경, 관행화·고착화 된 농법 등으로 인해 주민참여 및 대책 적용의 한계가 있었다. 금호강 상류 보현산댐 유역은 대부분 임야로 고현천 등 상류 하천변에 사과원이 밀집되어 있다. 또한, 유역면적이 32.16km²로 좁고, 유로 연장 5km 이내로 짧으며 하천 경사가 급해 강우시 토양 유실량이 많고 유출속도가 빠르다. 이러한 유역 특성상 상류 사과원은 '16년 보현산댐 담수 이후 매년 반복적으로 발생하는 녹조 등 수질 문제를 초래하는 주요 비점오염원으로 지역사회 이슈가 되었다. 이에 따라 K-water는 낙동강수계관리위원회 환경기초조사사업의 일환으로 지역주민들과 논의를 통하여 댐 상류 사과원에 친환경농법(심층시비)를 적용하고 수질 개선 효과를 분석하였다. 심층시비는 과수 주변 토양 천공 후 퇴비를 시비하는 친환경농법으로 표층시비에 비해 초기 강우유출 오염물질량을 저감하고 퇴비 사용량도 줄일 수 있다. 금번 연구에서 실제 운영 중인 농지('19년 24천평, '20년 27천평)을 대상으로 심층시비를 시범적용한 결과, 퇴비 사용량은 표층시비의 50% 수준으로 감소하였고 과수 생육 및 품질에는 큰 영향이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 강우 시 유출농도는 표층시비 대비 TOC 5.0~41.3%, T-P 4.0~57.3% 감소했다. HSPF 유역 모델링 분석 결과, 전체 과수원 중 70% 농지에 심층시비를 적용한 경우, 하절기 유역 T-P 유입부하량이 5.0~6.8%(소유역 최대 28.2%) 감소하는 것으로 예측되었다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 심층시비를 확대 적용하고 유역 수질관리에 기여하고자 한다.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.59-68
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• 2008

Three phases of development in construction projects (i.e. pre-development, construction and post construction) diversely effect the environment, hydraulics and ecosystem. Currently, the domestic environmental policy is in control of the various environmental hazards produced after completion of development operations. Nevertheless, with the enforcement of water pollution total amount management system, improving the water quality; also the water and ecosystem preservation law recommends enforcing the sediment management for development operations in order to lessen the negative impacts to the environment. Recently, the country is experiencing difficulties in various development project locations due to insufficiency of interpreting the fundamental data for sediment loss and miscalculation of soil loss unit loads of sediment. This research utilizes data from 2000 to 2005 discussing a total of 1,036 environment impact assessment projects gathered from various ministries and offices namely Ministry of Environment (MOE), Ministry of Agriculture, the Office of Forestry, and Ministry of Construction and Transportation. Moreover, quantity of sediment from high land agriculture reports involving contaminant discharge characteristic investigation previously did concerning old land agriculture and So-Yang lake non-point pollution source management area as well as management measured data from MOE. The findings of this study reveal that the highest soil loss rate occurred from mountain district for pre-development and post construction and sports facility during construction.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.369-383
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• 2016

A distributed watershed model CAMEL(Chemicals, Agricultural Management and Erosion Losses) was applied to a part of grazing grassland and vegetation buffer strip(VBS) located in Daegwanryeong, Korea. A set of scenario analyses was carried out for grassland and VBS with various combinations of VBS widths, soil textures and ground surface slopes. The simulation results indicate that annual direct runoff decreases with wider VBS and the removal efficiency of pollutants generally decrease with steeper slopes. The removal efficiency of sediment is not significantly different with VBS widths. For gentle and medium slopes($10^{\circ}$, $20^{\circ}$), the removal efficiency of TOC and TN is not significantly different with VBS widths. As for a steep slope($30^{\circ}$), however, the removal efficiency of TOC and TN increases with narrower VBS. The removal efficiency of TP is generally high except for medium and steep slope of sandy loam where the removal efficiency of TP increases with wider VBS. This result of TP is contrary to the results of TOC and TN due to the adsorption characteristics of phosphorus associated with fine sediment particles. It is expected that CAMEL can be used for evaluating the effectiveness of VBS to reduce non-point source pollution discharges.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.68-77
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• 2017

In order to estimate the non-point pollution loads from each watersheds among 209 watersheds, the calibration and validation of HSPF model were carried out based on 2012 in 2013 years. In the case of flow rate, R2 of calibration and validation were 0.71~0.93 and 0.71~0.79, which were relatively good values. With the respect to calibration of water quality, % differences between measured and simulated values were 0.4 ~ 9.7 of DO, BOD 0.5 ~ 30.2% and TN 1.9~28.6% except for Hwhangkang B site. In case of validation, DO was 0.2 ~ 13.7%, BOD 1.3~23% and TN 0.5~24.3% excluding Hwhangkang B. However, since the concentration of TP was very small compared with other items, the range of difference was large as 0.8~55.3%. level. As the result of calculating annual accumulative BOD loads for each watershed, it was found that RCH 123 (Uryeong, Gyeongsangnamdo), RCH 121 (Jinju, Gyeongsangnamdo) and RCH 92 (Daegu) were the high ranked. The unit watersheds including various landuse type susch as forest and agricultural sites in mainstream areas have a higher BOD nonpoint pollution load than those in dam regions. However, the results of the annual cumulative loading of the basins for nutrients did not appear to be consistent with the BOD annual cumulative loading ranks. Other factors that represent watershed characteristics such as landslope and soiltypes, including landuse pattern, have been found to be closely related to nonpoint pollutant loads.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.291-296
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• 2008

Pollutant unit load developed by Ministry of Environment (MOE) in 1995 has been a tool commonly used for water quality management and environmental policy decision. In spite of the convenience of the method in application, the shortcoming of the method has been criticized especially for nonpoint source pollution from paddy field. In this paper the estimation procedures of pollutant unit load from paddy field in the major river basins (Han, Nakdong, Geum, and Youngsan river) were investigated, and some suggestions of improvement measures of the unit-load estimation were made. The investigation showed that the distributions of rainfall, run-off, and run-off ratio, which are the most important factors affecting discharge amount of pollutants, were not similar among river basins. Such differences seemed to result in a greater unit loads estimation at Han river and at Nakdong river watersheds compared to the others. Therefore, it is not likely to be rationale to compare unit load among the watersheds without consideration of such differences. We conclude that estimation of unit-load through an intensive monitoring of pollutant discharge is crucial for better estimation of unit-load. When such an intensive monitoring is not easy due to labor and expense restriction, we suggest that unit-load should be estimated based on the storm-events which is a representative rainfall-runoff event of the area.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.353-358
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• 2017

As a drinking water source of 26 millions people of Seoul metropolitan region, Han river is one of the most important basin. Managing the Non-point source pollution which is regarded as the main cause of water pollution including refractory organic matter is important thing. This research investigates the runoff characteristics of organic matters from main 3 rivers (South Han, North Han, Kyungan). Water quality measurement items include not only carbon-based TOC (Total Organic Carbon), DOC (Dissolved Organic Carbon), POC (Particulate Organic Carbon) but also R-TOC (Refractory Total Organic Carbon), R-DOC (Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon), R-POC (Refractory Particulate Organic Carbon) is researched. The research shows that R-TOC takes approximately 61~83% of TOC. Most of the R-TOC is consist of R-DOC (72~77%). Refractory organic matter have a stable runoff characteristics compared to other organic matter. The organic matter concentrations of South Han river and Kyungan river are the highest in spring time and show a gradual decline. The concentrations of Kyunan river is the highest. Kyungan river's small area and the high city land use ratio seem to be the reason. Loading of organic matter in summer time takes the most loading (62~84%). TOC loadings per unit area of each river is Kyungan river ($1.22ton/km^2$), South Han river ($1.01ton/km^2$), North Han river ($0.91ton/km^2$).

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.373-381
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• 2012

An automatic flow and water quality monitoring system was applied to estimate pollutant loads to an urban stream during storm events in DTV (Daeduk Techno Valley), Daejeon, Korea. The monitoring system consists of rainfall gage, ultrasonic water level meter, water quality sensors for DO, temperature, pH, conductivity, turbidity and automatic water sampler for further laboratory analysis. All data are transmitted through on-line system and the monitoring system is designed to be controlled manually in the field and remotely from laboratory computer. Flow rates were verified with field measurements during storm events and showed good agreements. Automatic sampler was used to collect real time samples and analyzed for BOD, COD, TN, TP, SS and other pollutant concentrations in the laboratory. SWMM (Storm Water Management Model) urban watershed model was applied and calibrated using the observed flow and water quality data for the study area. While flow modeling results showed good agreement for all events, water quality modeling results showed variable levels of agreement. These results indicate that current options in the SWMM model to predict pollutant build up and wash-off effects are not sufficient to satisfy modeling of all the rainfall events under study and thus need further modification. This study showed the automatic monitoring system can be used to provide data to assist further refinement of modeling accuracy. This automatic stormwater monitoring and modeling system can be used to develop basin scale water quality management strategies of urban streams in storm events.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1179-1193
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• 2018

The purpose of this study at water quality pollutants to propose proper management method for the Osu-A unit watershed which is the influent tributary located upstream of the Sumjin -river among the 13 unit watersheds in the Sumjin-river water system. Analyzed the correlation between flow-pollution loading and the correlation between land use type, BOD and TP items, and analyzed 8-day intervals Cumulative Flow Duration Curve (CFDC) and Load Duration Curve (LDC) to evaluate water quality damage. As a result, both BOD and TP were larger than 1 and the concentration of water pollutants increased with increasing flow. BOD was positively correlated with Urban and Field, and TP was positively correlated with Field with 0.710. As a result of the LDC, BOD was analyzed that the target water quality was achieved with the excess rate of less than 50%, and TP exceeded the target water quality by 50.1%. BOD usually exceeded the standard value (exceedance probability 50%) at low flow zone and On the other hand, TP usually exceeded the standard value at high flow zone. Monthly BOD (April to June) and TP (May to August) exceeded the standard. Sewage Wastewater treatment and non-point pollution control is Osu-A unit watersheds are effective in improving BOD and TP.