Problems of reservoir sedimentation in China |
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Authors: | Jiang Naisen and Fu Lingyan |
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Institution: | (1) China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, 100044 Beijing, P. R. China |
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Abstract: | As there are many heavily sediment-laden rivers in China, with high sediment concentration and a large quantity of sediment
load, the sedimentation problems of the reservoirs built on those rivers are so serious that the amount of sediment deposited
in the reservoirs is great and the rate of sedimentation is accelerated. According to the statistics, up to the end of 1981,
a total amount of 11.5×109m3 of sediment were accumulated in those reservoirs, i.e. 14.2% of the total designed capacity were lost. The average annual
loss in storage capacity reached 2.3 percent, being the highest in the world. Silting of impounding lakes not only has an
effect on the benefits of the reservoirs and seriously threatens the life of reservoirs, but also results in many environmental
problems which were not fully estimated in the planning of the reservoirs. In this paper, the situation of reservoir deposition
in China are described from the following aspects: 1) the characteristics of hydrology and sediment of the rivers; 2) the
seriousness of reservoir sedimentation in China; 3) problems caused by reservoir deposition; 4) the methods of minimizing
sediment deposition, etc. |
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Keywords: | reservoir sedimentation rivers with heavy sediment load impounding clear water and releasing muddy water measure of minimizing sediment deposition |
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