• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.41-45
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• 2000

Geotube is made of permeable but soil-tight geotextile, hydraulically filled with soil include dredged sand and mud, which has been successfully applied in hydraulic and coastal engineering projects. Ceotube method is getting popular and being used a lot in many countries of the world because of the simplicity of the placement and construction, cost effectiveness and minimum impact on the environment, and enable to store & isolate contaminated materials as obtained by harbor dredging. Laboratory tests and field construction were performed to determine the design methodology and construction procedures. From the results of laboratory and field construction, the retention ratio of solid particle is a minimum 86%. The minimum permeability and the tensile strength of geotextile are $\alpha$ x 10$^{-4}$ cm/sec and 20t/m, respectively Also, based on the environmental test results, it can be concluded that this method does meet the Korean EPA standards.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.450-452
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• 2007

낙동강 중하류지역에 있어서 본류와 주요지천에 있어서의 환경특성과 식생현황을 조사하여 하천관리방안의 기초자료를 마련하고, 본류와 지류의 물리적 특성, 토지이용현황, 수질특성, 토양특성 및 식생 현황을 조사하였다. 조사결과 하천에서 육역으로 갈수록 귀화식물의 유입이 많았는데, 같은 하천이라도 회천의 경우 강가보다 제방부근이 더 높게 나타났고, 상대적으로 사람의 접근이 어려운 낙동강 본류의 매리나 물금지역이 낮게 나타나 귀화식물의 유입은 하천의 형태와 더불어 인간의 접근용이성에도 영향을 많이 받고 있음을 보여주었다. 조사 대상 지역 중 서낙동강 습지와 묵정논 등 습지에서 수생식물의 출현율이 높게 나타나, 이들 지역에 있어서 수생식물을 이용한 하천 수질정화에 있어서 습지의 조성 혹은 관리가 매우 유용할 수 있음을 보여주었다. 조사지역에서의 비소와 크롬의 경우 대부분의 지역에서 토양오염우려기준 이상으로 조사되어 이에 대한 대책이 시급한 것으로 나타났다. 현재와 같은 열약한 수변조건에서 강수시에 범람이나 침식으로 인하여 수체로 유입된 가능성이 매우 높은 것으로 판단되어지며 이를 방지하기 위한 수변녹지의 확보가 절실한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.9-18
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• 2003

Sampling of waters from each stage of treatment system (Successive Alkalinity Producing System; SAPS), tailings seepage, and spring near the Hanchang coal mine of Kangwon Province were carried out seasonally and analyzed to evaluate the source and possible path of groundwater contamination by acid mine drainage (AM). Sulfur isotope compositions were measured to identify the origin of groundwater contaminations and the sulfate reduction processes in the SAPS. Low pH and high metal concentration of spring water indicates possibility of the groundwater contamination by AMD. Removal efficiency of acidity of the SAPS was 18.17 g/$\textrm{m}^2$/day on an average and the metal removal efficiency was almost 100%, which was higher than those of other treatment systems. However, no appreciable decrease of sulfur content and almost similar sulfur isotope compositions of water from each stage of the treatment system may suggest incomplete or very poor sulfate reduction by sulfate reducing bacteria. Chemical and sulfur isotope compositions showed that spring water was contaminated by seepage from mine tailings. And seepage of stonewall, a part of treatment system was affected by both tailings seepage and mine adit drainage. In this study site, the treatment system was constructed for the only AMD from mine adit not for tailings seepages, which resulted in the groundwater contamination from tailing seepages. Similar situation is expected in other abandoned coal mine areas.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.357-357
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• 2018

기후변화의 영향으로 기온과 강수량의 증가가 나타나고 있으며, 이러한 변화는 수문 순환 및 강우-유출의 변화로 인해 하천의 수질에도 영향을 미치게 된다. 수질 오염원 중 배출원의 형태가 명확하지 않은 비점오염원은 강우의 유출과 함께 발생하는 특징을 띤다. 비점오염원은 지표면에 존재하던 오염 물질이 지표면에서 유출이 발생함에 따라 하천으로 유입되는 오염물이다. 이에 따라 강우량에 비례하는 특성을 띠며 점 오염원과 달리 변동 폭이 크다. 대표적인 비점오염물로 알려진 질소, 인과 같은 영양물질은 하천으로 유입 시 부영양화를 야기하는 물질로 우리나라와 같이 계절별 강수량의 차이가 큰 환경에서 비점오염물의 지속적인 관리는 필수적이라 할 수 있다. 비점오염원은 오염원을 특정할 수 없기 때문에 하천으로의 유입을 최소화하는 최적관리기법(Best Management Practices)을 통해 관리한다. 국내외에서 가장 널리 이용되는 비점오염원 최적관리기법은 식생형 시설로, 나지에 식물체를 파종함으로써 토양의 유실을 방지하여 비점오염물의 하천 유입을 저감시키고, 자연경관으로써 기능한다. 미래 수자원의 효과적인 이용을 위해서는 기후변화에 따른 수문 변화, 그로 인한 수질 변화 특성을 파악하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기후변화 시나리오를 통해 기온, 강수, 습도와 같은 기후 조건의 변화를 고려하여 예측되는 비점오염물의 유출 저감 대책의 영향을 분석하고자 한다. 이 때, 기후변화 시나리오는 그 자체로 불확실성을 포함하는 자료이기 때문에 특정 시나리오를 분석하기 보다는 기후변화 진행 정도에 따른 비점오염물 유출을 산정하고 저감 대책의 영향을 분석한다. 연구를 수행하기 위해 장기간의 강우-유출 특성의 모의가 가능하고 저감 대책을 제공하는 SWAT 모형을 이용한다. SWAT 모형에서는 여러 최적관리기법을 제공하는데, 가장 널리 이용되는 것이 식생형 시설인 것에 기초하여 적용할 저감 대책으로 계단식 산비탈(Terracing)을 선정하였다. 저감 대책의 적용으로 비점오염물질이 적게는 약 30%에서 많게는 60%까지 변화하며 매우 효율적으로 저감되는 것이 확인되었다. 저감 시설의 적용을 통해 총 량 뿐만 아니라 시간에 따른 비점오염물 유출의 변동성 또한 감소시킬 수 있음이 확인되었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.92-96
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• 2002

Present contamination levels of soils along the major roadsides of Seoul, Korea were investigated, and base-line data were accumulated for future use. Topsoil $(1{\sim}5$ cm) and subsoil $(20{\sim}50$ cm) from five districts (Gangdong-, Gwangjin-, Nowon-, Seodaemun- and Seongdong-gu) were sampled. The collected samples were airdried, passed through 2-mm sieves, and analyzed to determine the physicochemical properties including pH, EC, CEC, exchangeable cations (Ca, Mg, K, and Na), and heavy metal contents (Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn). Soil textures of topsoils and subsoils were mainly loamy sand and sandy loam, respectively. The range of pH was $4.5{\sim}10$.0 with an average of 7.5 for both topsoil and subsoil, which is much higher than that of the forest soils in Seoul. The ranges of 0.1 N HCI extractable Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn contents for both topsoils and subsoils were $0.0l{\sim}l.19$, N.D. (not $detected){\sim}228$.99, $N.D.{\sim}352$.54, and $2.97{\sim}332$.96 mg $kg^{-1}$, respectively. Most of the average heavy metal contents were lower than the concern level of the Soil Environment Conservation Act of Korea, but were much higher than those of the , forest soils in Seoul. Some sites were higher in heavy metal contents than the concern levels; in particular, the average Cu content in Seongdong-gu was much higher than the concern level, 50 mg $kg^{-1}$. Careful management of the soil to prevent the aggravation of the present contamination level and the dissemination of contamination is highly recommended.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.8-18
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• 2015

Pollutants such as heavy metals and explosives originating from the military operational ranges can be migrated to adjacent surface water body or offsite soil, and can affect to local residents and aquatic ecosystem. Therefore, Korea Ministry of the National Defense has established various guidelines for environmental management including the installation of pollutant migration prevention facilities (PMPFs) and monitoring methodologies for heavy metals in the operational range soil and effluent and sediment of PMPFs. However, current guidelines neither address the explosive compounds such as 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) nor suggest detailed environmental investigation protocol. This paper introduces the new “Environmental Management Manual for Military Firing Ranges”, which includes the environmental criteria for explosives as well as the detailed investigation protocol for the affected environmental media including soil, effluent and sediment of PMPFs.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.82-94
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• 2021

Facilities for low impact development (LID) or groundwater recharge have the high potential spreading groundwater nitrate contamination because of the rapid infiltration. This study was initiated to remove nitrate from the waters using agricultural byproducts as organic sources for denitrification during infiltration. As the first step of this purpose, we experimentally tested the denitrifying efficiency of 4 organic materials (pine tree woodchips, cherry leaves, rice straws, and rice hulls) and tried to identify the key factors controlling the efficiency. For this study, we precisely investigated the change of chemical reactions during the experiment by analyzing various geochemical parameters. The result shows that the denitrification efficiency is not simply linked to the availability of the easily decomposable contents in the organic matter. It is found that avoiding the severe pH decrease due to the CO₂ generation is the essence to derive the efficient denitrifying conditions when organic matters were used.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.383-389
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• 2004

Understanding flow pattern of water and solute in subsurface is essential for the reduction and prevention of contamination of soil and groundwater and for the investigation and remediation of contaminated site. The objective of this study is to examine the infiltration pattern in a soil developed from the Jurassic granite using (Brilliant Blue FCF $C_{37}H_{34}N_{2}Na_{2}O_{9}S_{3}$), the nonfluorescent and nontoxic food dye. All image processing was conducted using geographic image processing software, ER Mapper, Version 6.2. The dye coverage was determined by counting the stained pixels in the photographs (80${\times}$80cm, 80TEX>${\times}$5cm) for the vertical and horizontal view. A homogeneous matrix flow occurred in the A horizon with weak, medium granular structure and fingering at the interface of finer-textured A horizon and coarser-textured C horizon. Pegmatitic vein originated from the granite and plant root in C horizon induced preferential flow.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.54-63
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• 2004

For the purpose of finding out the distributions of groundwater uses, the effect of facilities on the parameter and the correlations among measurements, various statistical analysis were carried out with the data of groundwater quality measurements from January to December in 2002. (1) The rates of groundwater for drinking water were 10.5% in Yungcheon-Gu, 10.2% in Kangdong-Gu, and 9.9% in Eunpyung-Gu. The rates of other uses of groundwater were shown to be 58.1 %(786 wells) for civil defense emergency, 22.1% (299 wells) for contamination-concerning, 9.8%(133 wells) for water quality monitoring, consisting of 90% of all groundwater. (2) The 52.6% of groundwater for drinking were demonstrated to be appropriate while 91.9% for other uses-domestic, industrial, agricultural uses- were shown to be proper. (3) For drinking water, the maximum values of colar, turbidity, NH3-N, F, and Fe were 766.9 degree, 69.16NTU, 860.0 mg/l, 5.6 mg/l and 49.87 mg/l respectively. (4) Comparision of skewness and kurtosis for Seoul groundwater, pH was found to be 0.022 and -0.524, but the T.colony, color, turbidity, NH$_3$-N, NO$_3$-N, Fe and Mn respectively fumed out to be 11.641 and 174.324, 8.501 and 80.260, 5.675 and 32.821, 19.507 and 380.994, 3.323 and 17.436, 10.544 and 134.093 and 5.979 and 39.124. (5) In cases of drinking water wells for emergency, the results of statistical analysis showed that building year of the wells, depth and pumping rate didn't affect on whether it was proper for that use or not. It were shown that there were linear correlations between depth and NO3-N(-0.171) and F(0.332) while the correlation coefficients were 0.381 and -0.169 between the building year of well and depth and pumping rate respectively.

• Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.19-30
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• 2002

This study was conducted to investigated the effects of rubber chips from used tires on sports turf ground as soil conditioner to improve soil physical properties. The release of heavy metal ions was detected to check the soil contamination by incorporation of recycled rubber chips with topsoil. The effects of the chips were also evaluated as topdressing material to improve surface resilience. The rate of rubber chips showed a positive relationship with soil temperature increasement. Incorporation of rubber chips increased soil temperature on surface at 2.5 cm-depth. The rates of rubber chip showed a negative relationship with ground cover rate of turfgrass in early growth season. However, after 20 weeks, treatment of 10% rubber chips at 2.5 cm-depth showed a prominent cover rate of 70% which was not significantly different with untreated control. Incorporation of rubber chips within topsoil seemed to reduce soil compaction, but the effects was not prominent on physical properties. Rubber chips did not affect chemical properties and heavy metal contamination to soil environment. Rubber chips improved resilience of the compacted ground surface as topdressing material, this effect was prominent when aerification practise was preceded.