TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of Onshore Construction Activities on Sea Water Turbidity
AU - Afzal, Muhammad Salman
AU - Tahir, Furqan
AU - Al-Ghamdi, Sami G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Turbidity refers to the presence of suspended particles in water. The increased number of construction and development activities these current times is resulting in increased sediments in water, which reflects higher turbidity. Sunlight is frequently absorbed by turbid water, resulting in a rise in the water's overall temperature and a decrease in dissolved oxygen concentration. All these conditions put aquatic life under stress. This research's primary focus was sedimentation and suspension turbidity, which is more likely to occur due to onshore construction activities. In the study, samples were collected from various locations of one of Qatar's onshore construction sites and analyzed for turbidity using a portable turbidity meter and a spectrophotometer. A comparison of the obtained data to Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) standards was conducted. The results indicated a significantly increased turbidity in a few sample locations, i.e., at the inlet point of the sedimentation tank, dewatering pipeline, and open excavations of the project site. The study also suggested using sedimentation tanks and silt traps in an onshore construction project to prevent turbid water from being discharged into the sea.
AB - Turbidity refers to the presence of suspended particles in water. The increased number of construction and development activities these current times is resulting in increased sediments in water, which reflects higher turbidity. Sunlight is frequently absorbed by turbid water, resulting in a rise in the water's overall temperature and a decrease in dissolved oxygen concentration. All these conditions put aquatic life under stress. This research's primary focus was sedimentation and suspension turbidity, which is more likely to occur due to onshore construction activities. In the study, samples were collected from various locations of one of Qatar's onshore construction sites and analyzed for turbidity using a portable turbidity meter and a spectrophotometer. A comparison of the obtained data to Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) standards was conducted. The results indicated a significantly increased turbidity in a few sample locations, i.e., at the inlet point of the sedimentation tank, dewatering pipeline, and open excavations of the project site. The study also suggested using sedimentation tanks and silt traps in an onshore construction project to prevent turbid water from being discharged into the sea.
KW - Dewatering
KW - Onshore construction activities
KW - Sedimentation
KW - Silt trap
KW - Turbidity
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_2
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85177822366
SN - 9789819941001
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 17
EP - 24
BT - Environment and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2022 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
A2 - Ujikawa, Keiji
A2 - Ishiwatari, Mikio
A2 - Hullebusch, Eric van
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, ACESD 2022
Y2 - 4 November 2022 through 6 November 2022
ER -