Taking a reservoir in South China as an example, we use rainfall-runoff unit hydrograph method to analyze the time changing process of surface runoff inflow, which generated by typical design rainfall. On the basis of time series data of flow and water quality in control section of the main rivers in Xili Reservoir, we establish mathematical response relation between non-point source pollutants flux, such as flux of COD, flux of NH3-H, in catchment area of control section and runoff. Then we simulate the time dynamic change progress of non-point source pollution load which generate with the initial stage runoff that generated by design rainfall and flow into reservoir. It can provide technical parameters for the design of non-point source which generate from early runoff treatment project.
With the further development of point source pollution control, point source pollution has been initially controlled. However, the proportion of non-point source pollution is increasing in China [
The research on non-point source pollution has been carried out as early as 1970s. Foreign scholars often use ARM, SWMM, STORM and other non-point source pollution calculation model for non-point source pollution load [
Up to now, the most study of the pollution load of rainfall runoff in Watershed only give the total amount of non-point source pollution load in single rainfall, there is few study on the process of pollution load changing with time of raining. So, this article establishes the relationship between the concentration of pollutant source and cumulative runoff by the monitoring value of water and water quality of main river in Xili Reservoir. Furthermore, we give the progress of non-point source pollution load flux changing with time of a typical rainfall.
Xili reservoir is located in the Pearl River Delta in the upper reaches of Shahe River, and it is also in Shenzhen Nanshan District Xili Street. Its water area is about 4.6 km2 and total storage capacity is about 3.41 × 107 m3. There are three main river in Xili reservoir which are Baimang River, Makan River and Dakan River respectively. Xili reservoir is one of the important drinking water source library of Shenzhen City. The catchment area and geographical parameters of control sections of the main inflow rivers are shown in
Xili reservoir basin is located in the low latitude subtropical area. Its annual average temperature is 22.4˚C, and rainfall distribute uneven during the year that the rainfall from April to September in flood season is 85% of the year. The rivers in Xili reservoir are rainy river and runoff, flow rate and flood peak are closely related to rainfall. According to the statistics of inflow quantity from 1966 to 1993, the annual inflow quantity is 1.99 × 107 m3, the ratio of water year
Section name | Catchment area/km2 | River length/km | The average slope |
---|---|---|---|
The control section of Baimang River | 3.36 | 4.7 | 0.014 |
The control section of Baimang River | 9.69 | 3.3 | 0.021 |
The control section of Baimang River | 2.23 | 2.78 | 0.022 |
to dry year is 6:1 and the variation of annual inflow is consistent with the change of rainfall.
This article use integrated unit line method, which is recommended by relevant literature, to obtain the progress of the flood in control section of main rivers [
This article use the maximum rainfall of single rain for each 5 years (it is 217 mm during 24 hours) as the design rainfall, and design the progress of rainstorm by the methods above. The design progress of rainstorm is shown in the
According to the design progress of rainstorm and the simulation method of the progress of runoff generation and confluence, we get rainfall-runoff unit hydrograph and the design progress of flow for the watershed of the main rivers (Baimang River, Makan River, Dakan River). The result is shown in the
As can be seen from the above figure, under the above conditions, the flow in control section of main rivers begins to appear when it rains for 2.33 - 2.5 hours.
The time difference between the maximum rainfall intensity of the design and the peak of the control section is 0.83 - 1 hour.
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In the calculation, y is the measurement contaminant concentration of the section, mg/L; X is the cumulative runoff of the control section, m³.
The pollution load flux of control section is the sum of the point source pollution load and the non-point source pollution load. Since the generation process of non-point pollutants is affected by the rainfall process, the flux is closely related with the time process and the rainfall process. In the study area, it takes sampling detection to the flow of control section and the contaminant concentration time variation process respectively during rainfall period (April 19, 2008), during the non rainfall period (February 20, 2008). According to the measured flow and pollutant concentration time variation process during the rainfall period, it can calculate cumulative runoff and cumulative pollutant flux of control section time variation process. Then, it deduct the effect of the base flow which is inflow the reservoir and cumulative pollutant flux of the base flow, cumulative runoff and cumulative non-point source pollutant flux time variation process can be obtained during the rainfall deduction. Finally, the dynamic response curve and response equation which is between non-point source pollutant concentration and cumulative runoff can be got by mathematical fitting. The results are shown in
In the calculation, y is the non-point source contaminant concentration of the section, mg/L; X is the cumulative runoff of the control section, m³.
According to the correlation between non-point source pollutant concentration and cumulative runoff in Baimang River, Makan River and Dakan River, and the time variety progress of design runoff in Baimang River, Makan River and Dakan River, it can get cumulative runoff and its corresponding non-point source pollutant concentration in different times. Then, based on the time variation progress of cumulative runoff, it get the time variety progress of non-point source pollutant concentration which flow into the reservoir (the time variation progress of non-point source COD pollutant concentration in the control section of Baimang River and Makan River is shown in
Due to the difference of the increment of cumulative runoff in unit time and the variation of non-point source pollutants concentration when the same cumulative runoff flow from the control section during rainfall duration, non- point source COD concentration in main rives decrease at different rates, until finally tends to be stable. The initial COD concentration in the Baimang River basin was 941 mg/L, it gradually stabilizes at 9.83 hours, and the steady concentration was about 98mg/L. The initial COD concentration in the Makan River basin was 555 mg/L, it gradually stabilize at 6.50 hours, and the steady concentration was about 12 m g/L.
According to the time variation process of non-point source pollutants concentration in main rivers of the study area and the time variation process of design runoff, the time variation process of non-point source pollutants flux can be get (the time variation progress of non-point source COD pollutant flux in the control section of Baimang River and Makan River is shown in
As can be seen from the above figure, the non-point source COD pollutant
flux in the control section of the Baimang River and the Makan River are fluctuating with the increase of the rainfall time. This phenomenon is caused by varying the change rate of the contaminant concentration at the same time as design runoff in control section. For example, when the rain of Baimang River occurred 2.50 h - 4.83 h, the non-point source pollutant concentration of control section decrease more smoothly, but the runoff of control section increase relatively fast, so the non-point source pollutant flux is increasing. During the period of 4.83 h - 7.00 h, with the non-point source pollutant concentration of control section decrease rapidly and the runoff of control section increase slowly, the non-point source COD pollutant flux decrease.
1) The time variation progress of non-point source pollutant flux in study area which is based on the time series data of runoff and water quality which is simultaneous observation of control section in Xili Reservoir has considered the loss of the process of non-point source pollutant from where it generates to control section. This manner improves the accuracy of simulation calculation.
2) Because the time between runoff and pollution which is produced from the rain and the progress of the rain are different. The non-point source pollutant load of catchment for the main rivers began to enter the reservoir after the rain occurred for period of time. The non-point source pollutant concentration achieved peak when the runoff remitted to control section; then it decreased at a slower rate for a relatively short period of time. Afterwards, the concentration of non-point source pollutants decreased rapidly by the increase of the runoff.
3) Through the study of runoff and pollution generation process, it is found that the proportion of non-point source pollution load in the initial runoff is greater. For example, under the maximum rain for each 5 years in the study area, the non-point source COD pollution load of the runoff which is produced from the first 10 hours accounted for 70.98% of the total non-point source COD pollution load in the runoff which is produced from the whole rainfall process. The non-point source ammonia nitrogen pollution load of the runoff which is produced from the first 10 hours accounted for 74.27% of the total non-point source ammonia nitrogen pollution load in the runoff which is produced from the whole rainfall process.
This research was supported by the Research Program for the key technologies of the Sewage Outlet Setting in Deepwater Region.
Sun, M.Y., Liu, T.T., Chen, B., Zhang, Y. and Han, L.X. (2017) Simulation on the Time Progress of the Non-Point Source Pollution Load in Initial Stage Runoff for Small Watershed. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 5, 62-70. https://doi.org/10.4236/wjet.2017.53B008