Water Pollutant Control for a River-Lake Region to the Northwest of Lake Taihu

2014 ◽  
Vol 665 ◽  
pp. 420-425
Author(s):  
Hua Wang ◽  
Feng Qiang Ji ◽  
Yi Yi Zhou ◽  
Kun Xia

In this paper, Zhushan Bay watershed to the northwest of Lake Taihu was selected as the research area. Taking the developed river-lake connectivity and frequent exchange of pollutants into consideration, we put forward a calculation method of water environment carrying capacity (WECC) for river network based on multiple objectives of water quality reaching standard in river environment function zones and control sections, concentration profile constraint of sewage outlet. According to the proposed method, we calculated the watershed WECC, assigned to each control unit, and quantitatively analyzed the reductions and reduction rate of pollutants under the condition of total amount of each pollutant of control unit reach water quality standards. The results showed that: The pollution loads of each pollutant in Zhushan Bay watershed were greater than WECC. The reduction of COD, NH3-N, TN and TP is 834.4 tons, 226.1 tons, 724.8 tons and 108.9 tons, and the reduction rate of COD, NH3-N, TN and TP is 13.8%, 36.5%, 55.2% and 73.4%, respectively. This paper plays a guiding role in the research of total amount control of river network in Zhushan Bay watershed, and provides important references for total amount control of similar river-lake region.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Wang ◽  
Feng Qiang Ji ◽  
Kun Xia ◽  
Meng An Wu

Zhushan Bay watershed to the northwest of Lake Taihu was selected as the research area. Taking the close connection of water quality and quantity of river-lake system into consideration, we constructed a water environmental coupling model of 1-D river network and 2-D lake to simulate hydrodynamic and water quality of river-lake system. Based on the results of field measured data, the constructed model was calibrated and validated. According to results of calibration, the range of river roughness was 0.02~0.028, the degradation coefficient of COD, NH3-N and TP degradation coefficient was 0.09~0.11 d-1, 0.05~0.07 d-1and 0.04 d-1, respectively; the lake bottom roughness was 0.025, the wind stress coefficient was 0.0013, the degradation coefficient of COD, NH3-N and TP degradation coefficient was 0.06、0.04 and 0.02 d-1, respectively. The calculated results fit well with the experimental results, indicating that the model has good practicality.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
GU Xiaohong ◽  
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ZENG Qingfei ◽  
MAO Zhigang ◽  
CHEN Huihui ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 02031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Wang ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Xiaoming Wu

In order to promote the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we should take into account the improvement of regional water environment while developing economy in Pearl River Estuary area. The water environmental dispatch scheme of river network is an important part of water environment improvement, and the key technology of dispatch is to determine the appropriate dispatch path, timing, scale and mode. The Hengqin Central River is taken as the study area in the paper. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of Hengqin Central River, the characteristics of nearby tides and water environment, this paper determines the dispatching path of “diversion from the east to the west”, the time of diversion during flood tide and drainage during ebb tide, the dispatching mode of sluice control, the dispatching scale of more water exchange during spring tide and less water exchange during neap tides, and puts forward the landscape dispatching scheme and the dilution dispatching scheme. In this paper, the semiexchange period and the rate of water exchange are taken as the evaluation indexes, and the dispatching effects of different schemes are analyzed by simulating different control schemes through water quality and quantity models. The results show that the water exchange capacity of Hengqin Central River network will be greatly enhanced when the diversion and drainage amplitude increases. The research results provide reference for water quality protection and control in the Pearl River Estuary complex river network.


Author(s):  
Keizo Negi ◽  
Keizo Negi ◽  
Takuya Ishikawa ◽  
Takuya Ishikawa ◽  
Kenichiro Iba ◽  
...  

Japan experienced serious water pollution during the period of high economic growth in 1960s. It was also the period that we had such damages to human health, fishery and living conditions due to red tide as much of chemicals, organic materials and the like flowing into the seas along the growing population and industries in the coastal areas. Notable in those days was the issues of environment conservation in the enclosed coastal seas where pollutants were prone to accumulate inside due to low level of water circulation, resulting in the issues including red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass. In responding to these issues, we implemented countermeasures like effluent control with the Water Pollution Control Law and improvement/expansion of sewage facilities. In the extensive enclosed coastal seas of Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay and the Seto Inland Sea, the three areas of high concentration of population, we implemented water quality total reduction in seven terms from 1979, reducing the total quantities of pollutant load of COD, TN and TP. Sea water quality hence has been on an improvement trend as a whole along the steady reduction of pollutants from the land. We however recognize that there are differences in improvement by sea area such as red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass continue to occur in some areas. Meanwhile, it has been pointed out that bio-diversity and bio-productivity should be secured through conservation/creation of tidal flats and seaweed beds in the view point of “Bountiful Sea” To work at these challenges, through the studies depending on the circumstances of the water environment in the enclosed coastal seas, we composed “The Policy of Desirable State of 8th TPLCS” in 2015. We have also added the sediment DO into the water quality standard related to the life-environmental items in view of the preservation of aquatic creatures in the enclosed water areas. Important from now on, along the Policy, is to proceed with necessary measures to improve water quality with good considerations of differences by area in the view point of “Beautiful and bountiful Sea”.


1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost de Jong ◽  
Peter T. J. C. van Rooy ◽  
S. Harry Hosper

Until the last two decades, the global perception of how to control our various water bodies was remarkably similar – water management was organised on a sectoral basis, as it always had been. It was only in the 1970s that the people actually responsible for implementing water management began to become aware of the serious implications of such an approach: water quality deterioration, desiccation and an alarming loss of the flora and fauna that characterised their local water environment. It was a growing awareness that led to the formation of the concept of integrated water management, a concept almost universally accepted today as the way forward. However, despite the fact that few dispute the validity of the concept, a number of obstacles remain before this theoretical agreement can be transformed into practical action. Three main bottlenecks stand in the way of implementation: institutional, communicational and socio-political. Whilst solutions to these are available, the key question still to be answered is whether society is really prepared to accept the consequent changes in the way we live that will result from putting the theory of integrated water management into practice. It was this issue that dominated the “Living with water” conference held in Amsterdam in September 1994. The following is a summary of the discussions held there and the various papers that were submitted.


2000 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Shoji ◽  
A. Sakoda ◽  
Y. Sakai ◽  
M. Suzuki

The quality of environmental waters such as rivers is often deteriorated by various kinds of trace and unidentified chemicals despite the recent development of sewage systems and wastewater treatment technologies. In addition to contamination by particular toxicants, complex toxicity due to multi-component chemicals could be much more serious. The environmental situation in bodies of water in Japan led us to apply bioassays for monitoring the water quality of environmental waters in order to express the direct and potential toxicity to human beings and ecosystems rather than determinating concentrations of particular chemicals. However, problems arose from the fact that bioassays for pharmaceutical purposes generally required complicated, time-consuming, expert procedures. Also, a methodology for feedback of the resultant toxicity data to water environment management has not been established yet. To this end, we developed a novel bioassay based on the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) uptake activity of human hepatoblastoma cells. The assay enabled us to directly detect the toxicity of environmental waters within 4 hours of exposure. This is a significantly quick and easy procedure as compared to that of conventional bioassays. The toxicity data for 255 selected chemicals and environmental waters obtained by this method were organized by a mathematical equation in order to make those data much more effectively and practically useful to the management of environmental waters. Our methodology represents a promising example of applying bioassays to monitor environmental water quality and generating potential solutions to the toxicity problems encountered.


Ecohydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiongfang Li ◽  
Yuting Zhu ◽  
Qihui Chen ◽  
Yu Li ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 347-353 ◽  
pp. 1902-1905
Author(s):  
Hua Li You

Water is the basis of natural resources and strategic economic resources.Deteriorated water environment of streams in Shenzhen city could have a great impact on ecological safety, people's health,and economic development.Based on the data of field observation and Remote sensing (RS) image,integrated analysis of the water degradation causes,and the changes of biochemical oxygen demand in five days(BOD5)concentration by mathematical model were carried out,which is on basis of percentage of waste water disposal,fresh water transformation,and harbor excavation, respectively.The results show that degradation causes of water quality were resulted from waste water discharge, harbor construction,and ecological environment damage, which could lead to slowly water exchange. Accordingly,the pollution can be easily to store in the bay,which result in water quality changes.The most important improved countermeasure is the control of waste water, which could be had a great effectiveness to decrease pollution.In addition, fresh water must be supplied after polluted water was cut off,which can be better improvement for water quality.This would be extreme improvement for hydrological dynamics due to 15m harbor excavation,which can significantly reduce BOD5 concentration.The innovation points of this paper is to mathematical model,which is based on the basis of qualitative analysis.


Author(s):  
Takeshi Mizunoya ◽  
Noriko Nozaki ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Singh

AbstractIn the early 2000s, Japan instituted the Great Heisei Consolidation, a national strategy to promote large-scale municipal mergers. This study analyzes the impact that this strategy could have on watershed management. We select the Lake Kasumigaura Basin, the second largest lake in Japan, for the case study and construct a dynamic expanded input–output model to simulate the ecological system around the Lake, the socio-environmental changes over the period, and their mutual dependency for the period 2012–2020. In the model, we regulate and control the following water pollutants: total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and chemical oxygen demand. The results show that a trade-off between economic activity and the environment can be avoided within a specific range of pollution reduction, given that the prefectural government implements optimal water environment policies, assuming that other factors constraining economic growth exist. Additionally, municipal mergers are found to significantly reduce the budget required to improve the water environment, but merger budget efficiency varies nonlinearly with the reduction rate. Furthermore, despite the increase in financial efficiency from the merger, the efficiency of installing domestic wastewater treatment systems decreases drastically beyond a certain pollution reduction level and eventually reaches a limit. Further reductions require direct regulatory instruments in addition to economic policies, along with limiting the output of each industry. Most studies on municipal mergers apply a political, administrative, or financial perspective; few evaluate the quantitative impact of municipal mergers on the environment and environmental policy implications. This study addresses these gaps.


2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 116651
Author(s):  
Xinchen He ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
Wei Zhuang ◽  
Dongfang Liang ◽  
Yanhui Ao

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