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- Title
Study of Non-Point Pollution in the Ashe River Basin Based on SWAT Model with Different Land Use.
- Authors
Chen, Jiashuo; Du, Chong; Nie, Tangzhe; Han, Xu; Tang, Siyu
- Abstract
The Ashe River Basin (ARB), long known as the "Golden Waterway" in Manchu, has become one of China's most polluted rivers. The basin area of the Ashe River is 3545 km2 and the total length of the river is 257 km. There have not been specific studies on land use change and non-point pollution in the ARB region. This paper uses the ARB watershed as the study area, simulates the watershed using the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model, and analyzes the hydrological processes and the temporal and spatial changes of total nitrogen and total phosphorus in the watershed with hydrology and water quality as the objectives under different periods of land use to reduce pollution in the watershed and protect the environment. The results show that the simulation of runoff, and even the R2 and NS (both the coefficient of determination and the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient are simulated by SWAT-CUP, which is generally used to validate the simulation results of the hydrological model, where the closer the result is to 1, the better the effect) of total nitrogen and total phosphorus in the watershed, are also all above 0.75 and have good applicability during regular and validation periods. Since 2000, the simulated monthly average total nitrogen and total phosphorus levels have progressively grown. The most polluted areas are concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the watershed near the main streams owing to the rise in load per unit area caused by the collection of pollutants from the upper watershed to the watershed outlet, and even an increase in fertilizer application due to the larger area of cultivated land.
- Subjects
CHINA; NONPOINT source pollution; WATERSHEDS; RIVER pollution; LAND use; WATERSHED hydrology; VOLCANIC soils
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 14, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w14142177