Assessment of environmental flows in rivers with the example of Great Menderes Basin
The management of the water resources is an important issue in the countries around the world because it depends on many variables. Prior to the growing environmental awareness, flow rate and regime are critical components of water supply, water quality, and the ecological integrity of river systems. Environmental flow may be described as the required stream flow quantity to support biological activity in a river system. While environmental flow assessment provide protection and use balance over the water resources and it also reduces the natural and artificial effects that caused of deterioration of the natural conditions of the rivers. There are only a few environmental flow assessment studies in Turkey. In this paper, some hydraulic and hydrological methods have been used in order to estimate the environmental flow. For this purpose, common methods such as original Tennant method, modified Tennant method, wetted perimeter method, 7Q10 and Q95 have been examined. Daily flow data of 30-year has been obtained from an unregulated measuring station located in Great Menderes Basin. For this particular case, the modified Tennant method might be selected as the most practical method for the measured data of flow rates in this station.
environmental flow hydraulic methods hydrological methods river system
Havva Ates Selim Dogan Ali Berktay
Department of Environmental Engineering, Selcuk University, Campus, Konya 42075, Turkey
国际会议
The 3rd Biennial ISRS Symposium Achieving Healthy and Viable Rivers (ISRS)第3届国际河流大会
北京
英文
235-240
2013-08-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）