The Korean Ministry of Environment (MOE) opts to establish an ordinance having a standard specifying an allowable soil loss rate applicable to construction projects. The predicted amount of soil loss from a construction site exceeding the standard can be used to calculate the percent reduction necessary to comply with the ordinance. This research was conducted to provide a basis to establish a standard by investigating the unit soil loss rates in the three phases of development: pre-construction, active construction and post construction based from 1,036 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports within the six-year period (2000–2005). Based on the findings, several factors affect the magnitude of soil loss rates particularly storm characteristics, site slope, soil type, location from rivers, as well as the type of construction activity. In general, the unit soil loss rates during the active construction phase are extremely higher in comparison to undisturbed areas; in magnitude of 7 to 80 times larger in urban areas and 18 to 585 times in rural areas. Only between 20 to 40 percent of the soil loss rates was contributed at pre- and post- construction phases indicating that the active construction phase is the most important phase to control.
Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
Research Article|
June 01 2009
Unit soil loss rate from various construction sites during a storm
Marla C. Maniquiz;
Marla C. Maniquiz
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University, 275 Budae-dong, Cheonan-si, Seobuk-gu, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
Search for other works by this author on:
Soyoung Lee;
Soyoung Lee
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University, 275 Budae-dong, Cheonan-si, Seobuk-gu, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
Search for other works by this author on:
Eunju Lee;
Eunju Lee
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University, 275 Budae-dong, Cheonan-si, Seobuk-gu, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
Search for other works by this author on:
Dong-Soo Kong;
Dong-Soo Kong
2Han-River Environment Research Center, Yangphyeong Kyeonggido, Republic of Korea
Search for other works by this author on:
Lee-Hyung Kim
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University, 275 Budae-dong, Cheonan-si, Seobuk-gu, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
E-mail: leehyung@kongju.ac.kr
Search for other works by this author on:
Water Sci Technol (2009) 59 (11): 2187–2196.
Citation
Marla C. Maniquiz, Soyoung Lee, Eunju Lee, Dong-Soo Kong, Lee-Hyung Kim; Unit soil loss rate from various construction sites during a storm. Water Sci Technol 1 June 2009; 59 (11): 2187–2196. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.255
Download citation file:
Sign in
Don't already have an account? Register
Client Account
You could not be signed in. Please check your email address / username and password and try again.
Impact Factor 1.915
CiteScore 3.3 • Q2
13 days submission to first
decision
1,439,880 downloads in 2021