Abstraet--A budget model is developed to predict the long-term response of a lake to changes in its phosphorus loading. This model computes total phosphorus and hypolimnetic oxygen concentrations, taking sediment-water interactions into account. The lake is treated as two segments: the water and a surface sediment layer. A total phosphorus budget for the water accounts for inputs due to externa...

As a successive alkalinity-producing system pond for purifying mine drainage is operated, sediment accumulates in the limestone layer of pond, and as amount accumulated increases, water permeability treatment efficiency decrease. Hence, flushing required, comprising network perforated pipes installed layers, to periodically discharge outside. The performance depends on four distinct characteris...

Benthic macroinvertebrates respond to several factors characterizing the physical habitats, as water depth, current and streambed substrate. Thus, anthropogenic disturbances altering these may have different effects on benthos, also depending mesohabitats. These include sediment flushing operations, commonly carried out recover reservoir capacity, investigating their at mesohabitat scale could ...

Water uptake by mangrove trees can result in salt accumulation in sediment around roots, negatively influencing growth. Tidal pumping facilitates salt release and can be enhanced by crab burrows. Similarly, flushing of burrows by incoming tidal water decreases sediment salinity. In contrast to burrows with multiple entrances, the role of burrows with one opening for salinity reduction is largel...