Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment

The environmental flow requirement varies from project to project based on their location, need, and habitat. The Binwa hydropower project is in the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh and a small hydropower project of 6 MW capacity. Here an attempt is made to assess the environmental flow requi...

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Autores principales:	C Prakasam, R Saravanan, Varinder S Kanwar
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Wetted perimeter method NDVI Environmental flow NDWI Hydraulic method Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1d870d47436d49ae82b83b09995b8fd92021-12-01T04:32:37ZEvaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107019https://doaj.org/article/1d870d47436d49ae82b83b09995b8fd92021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X20309584https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XThe environmental flow requirement varies from project to project based on their location, need, and habitat. The Binwa hydropower project is in the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh and a small hydropower project of 6 MW capacity. Here an attempt is made to assess the environmental flow requirement using the hydraulic approach, wetted perimeter method, and compared with the currently maintained e-flow. It is one of the old and commonly used method of assessing the environmental flow based on the hydraulic characteristics such as the depth, width, and perimeter. The discharge is computed for each depth along with the profile and a graph is plotted to obtain the required environmental flow. The assessed minimum flow values are customarily validated using a habitat or holistic approach. Here, to validate the calculated minimal flow value for its sufficiency, the Geographical Information System application is employed as it calculates the vegetation and water indices. The average of the breakpoint discharge has been calculated as 0.7724 m3/s. The minimal flow maintained in the Binwa basin is 0.9 m3/s which is within the limit of the existing flow maintenance during the lean period. The Geographical Information System results support the sufficiency of the environmental flow maintained in the downstream side of the dam. The wetted perimeter helped in deriving the environmental flow while the Geographical Information System application assisted in evaluating the sufficiency spatially.C PrakasamR SaravananVarinder S KanwarElsevierarticleWetted perimeter methodNDVIEnvironmental flowNDWIHydraulic methodEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 121, Iss , Pp 107019- (2021)
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description	The environmental flow requirement varies from project to project based on their location, need, and habitat. The Binwa hydropower project is in the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh and a small hydropower project of 6 MW capacity. Here an attempt is made to assess the environmental flow requirement using the hydraulic approach, wetted perimeter method, and compared with the currently maintained e-flow. It is one of the old and commonly used method of assessing the environmental flow based on the hydraulic characteristics such as the depth, width, and perimeter. The discharge is computed for each depth along with the profile and a graph is plotted to obtain the required environmental flow. The assessed minimum flow values are customarily validated using a habitat or holistic approach. Here, to validate the calculated minimal flow value for its sufficiency, the Geographical Information System application is employed as it calculates the vegetation and water indices. The average of the breakpoint discharge has been calculated as 0.7724 m3/s. The minimal flow maintained in the Binwa basin is 0.9 m3/s which is within the limit of the existing flow maintenance during the lean period. The Geographical Information System results support the sufficiency of the environmental flow maintained in the downstream side of the dam. The wetted perimeter helped in deriving the environmental flow while the Geographical Information System application assisted in evaluating the sufficiency spatially.
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title	Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment
title_short	Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment
title_full	Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment
title_fullStr	Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment
title_sort	evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and gis application for impact assessment
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publishDate	2021
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Evaluation of environmental flow requirement using wetted perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment

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