Impact of land reclamation in Aiwan Cove on marine water quality in Zhejiang Province, China

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10.2991/icseee-16.2016.84How to use a DOI?

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Land reclamation; water quality; modelling; Aiwan Cove

Abstract

A coupled hydrodynamic and water quality model based on MIKE 21 software was established to investigate the impact of land reclamation in Aiwan Cove, Zhejiang Province. The model was calibrated with the tidal level and current speed and direction measurements in the project area in 2013. The results showed that agricultural activities on the 1792 ha of the reclaimed land would cause severe water quality degradation of one class lower in nearly 3.69 km2 of sea area in the case of one year return storm events. The pollutant transport is largely controlled by the local hydrodynamic conditions. The influenced area was larger if the runoff discharge occurred during the neap tide than during the spring tide, and if the runoff discharge occurred in the low tide period when the water depth was small. It is suggested that additional pollution control measures should be conducted on the land and the runoff discharge timing be considered as well.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaochen Huang
AU  - Jufei Qiu
AU  - Shaojun Qi
AU  - Hanling Xu
AU  - Haiping Zhang
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Impact of land reclamation in Aiwan Cove on marine water quality in Zhejiang Province, China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 456
EP  - 459
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-16.2016.84
DO  - 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.84
ID  - Huang2016/12
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