Research Methodologies when Verifying Pollution Transportation in Estuary

Abstract

Copyright: © 2018 Liao SW. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Contamination generated from upstream development and human activity introduces a significant amount of pollutants into rivers and estuaries and thus, accelerates the hypoxia or eutrophication process, spoils the public water resources and environments, and thus requires huge costly remediation [1]. The difference between tidal river and seawater or the upper reaches of river lies in that the distribution of salt causes clay and organic matter in the water to settle due to flocculation into large particles, and then pollutants are dragged to the bottom of the riverbed. When the source of river water decreases, it is possible to release the adsorbed pollutants [2].