• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.55 no.2
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• pp.9-20
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• 2013

Many studies have reported additional treatment is needed to use wastewater for agricultural purpose. Economic considerations should be taken into account to establish infrastructure for agricultural reuse because of a large amount of water use in irrigation and relatively low water quality requirement. The objective of this study was to conduct economic analysis of wastewater reclamation and reuse systems for agriculture. A system dynamics approach considering complexity and dynamics in the wastewater reuse systems was used for the economic analysis, which are related with social, environmental, and economic problems. Sensitivity and benefit cost analysis for wastewater reuse systems was conducted through the established economic assessment model. The result of sensitivity analysis showed that water resources development and installation cost were the most sensitive for total benefits and costs, respectively. The scenario-based test of the organized economic assessment model shows marginal cost ranges and enables decision-makers to decide reasonable cost for the wastewater reuse systems for agriculture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.643-648
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• 2005

The objective of this paper is to analyze the environmental effects by the fertilizer change with wastewater reuse for agriculture. For this research, Lysimeter tests are being implemented to cultivate rice with different levels of fertilizer applications with wastewater irrigation., and to analyze the nutrient loading by wastwater reuse in paddy fields was examined the CREAMS-PADDY model. CREAMS-PADDY model is modified from CREAMS model for considering the hydrologic cycles in paddy field. As a result, in the lysimeter treated by irrigation with wastewater and chemical fertilizer with half of the conventional amount showed generally similar tendency to the control plot. This may require the modifications of standard cultural practices for rice in terms of fertilizer and pesticide applications. However, high concentration of sodium in wastewater might cause damage to physico-chemical properties of paddy soil. And the wastewater reuse effects on nutrient loads were quantitatively analyzed and this results provide the reasonable management for agricultural reuse.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.403-409
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• 2015

This study aims to investigate the use of a floating media filter (FMF) to eliminate waterborne microorganism in treated domestic wastewater for reuse in agriculture. A conventional sand filter (SF) was used concurrently to compare treated water quality. The total/fecal coliforms and somatic coliphage were employed as fecal indicators. The result showed that the FMF was fed with 3 times higher infiltration rate ($15m^3/m^2.h$) than that in the SF ($5m^3/m^2.h$), in which both filters gave similar coliform removal at 6 hours operation. The somatic coliphage elimination tended to increase with operational time for the FMF while that of the SF showed decreasing trend. When a 24 hour continuous operation was applied for the FMF, it showed better removal of somatic coliphage (78%), fecal coliforms (60%) and total coliforms (56%) than that of 6 hour operation. In conclusion, the FMF gave better performance than the SF did by producing a good quality of treated water for agriculture in terms of waterborne microorganisms including turbidity and suspended solids.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1959-1963
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• 2006

As an alternative water resources development, wastewater reuse for agricultural and instream uses are expected to be fond of the limelight. In order to find the feasible reuse system scheme for reclaimed water in real field, existing reuse sites were investigated for water quantity, quality, and irrigation scheme. From the results, most of sites supplied reclaimed water with a request of the users(farmers) and reuse techniques for agricultural use were to be needed in the sites which supplied over yearly $1.0{\times}10^6$ ton as agricultural water.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.401-404
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• 2002

Two irrigation districts, Maekok and Byungjum 1 which are irrigated with polluted stream flow, and one control district Kichun, that is supplied from a reservoir complying with the water quality standard are selected for water quality monitoring to identify the effects of polluted irrigation on crop yields, environments, and health hazards for farmers. The water quality at Maekok and Byungjum 1 districts are worse than the control district, and continuous water quality monitoring are needed for the wastewater reuse for agriculture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.479-484
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• 2005

A GIS-based integrated system for reuse of effluent from wastewater treatment plants was developed in this study. The GIS-supported program classified attribute data which the effluent's quantity and quality and agricultural thematic map data according to the 5 big river basin area. From the database, showing the spatial variation of the water quality of the effluent, thereby proposing proper mitigation strategies over the watershed. Also, this system enables the users who is going to reuse the reclaimed water for their paddies to provide of all the wastewater treatment plant data and agricultural structures and thematic map data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.259-262
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• 2003

Surveyed effluent capacities for potential wastewater resources through the surveying of the sewage treatment plants its capacity is up to 10,000 tonnes per day located 4 provinces (kyunggi, gangwon, chungbuk, chungnam) in this year. The total effluent capacities in this provinces are 423 thousand $m^3/day$, which may be used to irrigated paddy fields of 2,310ha A GIS database for wastewater resource inventory was developed for 4 provinces (kyunggi, gangwon, chungbuk, chungnam) to explore the feasibility of the wastewater reuse for drought mitigation. And it is to be extended to the other wastewater treatment plants.

• KCID journal
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.304-311
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.393-396
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• 2002

The objectives of the paper are to develop the infra-technologies for reclaiming the effluents from wastewater treatment plants and reusing for agriculture water. The Suwon wastewater treatment plant has been selected for wastewater reuse tests and the water quality and treatment efficiencies are investigated. Three levels of wastewater treatments that are the effluent from the plant, sand filtering, and ultra-violet treatment are applied in the pilot system. The randomized block method was applied to wastewater application to paddy rice with five treatments, three blocks, and two replica. The control was the plots with groundwater irrigation, the other treatments are to use polluted stream flow by pumping, in addition to three wastewater treatments. The block test plots and field plots have been monitored for the water quality, soil pollution, and health hazards during the crop stages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.521-526
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• 2005

Water Quality of effluent from wastewater treatment plants was reviewed to reuse effluent for agricultural water as alternative water resources. Among 2004, wastewater treatment plants, 19 plants are found to be used as wastewater resources applicable to irrigation. The total effluent capacities are 9,293 thousand $m^3$per day, which may be used to irrigate paddy fields. In order to know how much the effluent can be use for agricultural water, we classified the effluent according to the river basin area and evaluated the water quality of the effluent.