Preliminary Study of Strategic Environmental Assessment with Fish Investigation for Dam Construction Long-term Plan |
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학술지명 국제영향평가학회(IAIA)
저자 이성우,서진원,이정민
발표일 2007-06-07
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Dams have been constructed to deal with flood control, drinking water, agricultural/industrial water source, and to optimize the value of water resource. However, developed countries have concerned on impairment of natural environment due to physical, chemical, and biological changes after dam construction. Therefore, strategic environmental assessment on dam construction long-term plan is recently discussed in a policy oriented group in order to select the priority order of dam construction based on a feasibility study in environment and ecology. Because some of fishes, adjusted to lotic condition in streams and rivers, require specific habitat characteristics, they move toward to upstream of the watershed or some of them may become extinct species due to inappropriate habitats when a dam is built. We investigated fish fauna on 12 prospective dam sites, and focused on five different matrices. Each matrix was scored one to five, sum up, and then divided into five ranks. According to the results, four dam sites were classified into the fifth rank indicating ecologically important area on fish, and three of them belonged to Han River watershed. It provides an ecological value on the prospective dam sites, and should be considered with other environmental fields. |