This study was initiated to overview the sediment contaminant monitoring data of Kaohsiung Harbour areas collected between 92-97 for assessing the discharge sources of pollution and manipulating the effective management on the dredging of sediment. The harbour areas are surrounded with major industry and become the receiving sites with sewages from the populated city besides the shipping activities. These have impacted the harbour environment and its development for competing against other world shipping harbours. The present research intends to evaluate the proper strategy for dealing with the reduction of pollution source to prevent from further complicated environmental impacts. Approaches for the data assessment include the distribution of heavy metal concentration and its types of contaminants associated the discharge of industrial sources. A total of 20 monitoring stations were examined for the interrelation of metals. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of heavy metals in sediment result shows specific site related contaminant point sources and the localization of pollution at the enclosed areas.
Lowest contaminant concentrations were observed at the exit of harbour, area A. The B Area including the estuary of Love River, between Love River and the fifth ship irrigation ditch, and the fifth ship irrigation ditch, dominated the highest element concentrations of Hg, Cd, Pb, Zn, As, Al. The C area, including the former town river to the sea, had highest Cr concentration.The sources of pollution are related to electrical plating, metal polishing factory, leather industries and other industrial production. The D area including the heavy industries i.e., Taiwan Ship Building, Taiwan Steel Manufacturing, Ta-Lin Power Station and the major shipping channel, had the highest Cu concentrations. Similarly the E area as the A area, located at the end exit of harbour, had the lowest metal concentrations. These two areas are more subjected to the tide flow than the other survey stations (B, C, D areas) which have the highest contaminant concentrations. Although the harbour authority has carried out the dredging and monitoring annually, there is no enforcement on regulating the discharge of contaminants from the surrounding industrial sites or the lack of the appropriate strategy of pollution reduction for incorporating with the clean up program. This is owing to the non unified authorization between the municipality and harbour bureau. The present study suggests that four steps are needed to cope with harbour sediment contamination to achieve the sustainable harbour development; 1. appropriate pollution reduction program, 2.long term environmental monitoring, 3.an unified authority and 4.a sediment management strategy with proper guidelines to prevent from land based pollution source discharge.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0721110-143547 |
| Date | 21 July 2010 |
| Creators | Hsu, Tzu-wen |
| Contributors | Tong-Ming WU, Chiu-Long Chou, Yi-Che Shih, Yang-Yih Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0721110-143547 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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