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The Effects of the Project Investment for Water Quality Improvement in the River Taehwa

KIM, JAE-HONG 1

1울산대학교

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ABSTRACT

The Ulsan Metropolitan City had been stigmatized as a pollution city with heavy industrialization since 1970’s. Recently, however, the city has made a model case in Korea in terms of the transformation from a pollution city to an eco-city. The water quality improvement of the River Taehwa, which is running midst of the city, is one of the dramatic environmental achievements. The river water quality in the downstream area has been improved from 11.7ppm in 1991 to 1.7ppm in 2007 in terms of BOD. This study analyzes the effects of the project investments on the river water quality improvement. The major findings from the estimation results using the TSCS and AR1 regression models with correction of autocorrelation show that the household soil pipe connection project with investment of 26.6 billion KRW has reduced 2.29ppm in BOD at the downstream of the River Taehwa during the period of January 1998 to September 2007 and that the project dredging sediments at the river bottom with investment of 16 billion KRW has resulted in the decrease of 1.31ppm in BOD at the same period.

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