Abstract A study on the suspended sediment transportation downstream from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in China has shown that the dynamics of suspended sediment grain size are complicated. During the period when the reservoir was used for flood retention, the suspended sediment median size decreased gradually; after entering the period when the reservoir was used for water storage, the median siz...

Reservoir sedimentation and its effect on the environment are the most serious world-wide problems in water resources development and utilization today. As one of the largest water conservancy projects, the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) has been controversial since its demonstration period, and sedimentation is the major concern. Due to the complex physical mechanisms of water and sediment trans...

this paper describes the problem of sedimentation in reservoirs,in general, and offers an estimate of the annual rate of storage loss and the useful life of sefidrud reservoir in iran,in particular. the life of sefidrud reservoir was predicted to exceed 100 years in the design, based on insufficient data. regular daily measurements of sediment discharge of the river, taken years later, however,...

Information on soil erosion and sediment yields is very limited in the immediate vicinity of the Three Gorges Project Ž . TGP , although the inceptisols developed on Triassic shales and sandstones in this area are known to be highly susceptible Ž . to erosion. Estimated sediment yields for a small reservoir catchment Yiwanshui in Changshou County, downstream of Ž y2 y1. Chongqing, are high arou...

A reservoir is an integral component of a water resources system. Periodic evaluation of the sediment deposition pattern and assessment of available storage capacity of reservoirs is an important aspect of water resources management. The conventional techniques of quantification of sediment deposition in a reservoir, such as hydrographie surveys and the inflow-outflow methods, are cumbersome, c...

The estimated diffusion fluxes of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) at the sediment-water interface in the Rzeszów Reservoir in southeastern Poland are presented. The relevant studies were conducted during 2009, 2010, and 2011. Calculated fluxes ranged from 0.01 to 2.19 mmol m-2 day-1 and from 0.36 to 45.33 mmol m-2 day-1 for methane and carbon dioxide, respectively. While the values for c...

monthly and annual water and phosphorus mass budgets were set up over the year 2010 for thelake rio verde, brazil. limited data for the water budget was compensated using an interpolation methodwith data water budget data of a nearby reservoir. thus, errors of ca. 1.5% were estimated for the waterbudgets. dominant p mass input terms were inflows from the rivers and direct run off into the reser...