Daecheong Reservoir was made by the construction of a large dam (>15 m in height) on the middle to downstream of the Geum River and the discharge systems have the watergate-spillway (WS), a hydropower penstock (HPP), and two intake towers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the limnological anomalies of turbid water reduction, green algae phenomenon, and oligotrophic state in the lower part of reservoir dam site, and compared with hydro-meteorological factors. Field surveys were conducted in two stations of near dam and the outlet of HPP with one week intervals from January to December 2000. Rainfall was closely related to the fluctuations of inflow, outflow and water level. The rainfall pattern was depended on the storm of monsoon and typhoon, and the increase of discharge and turbidity responded more strongly to the intensity than the frequency. Water temperature and DO fluctuations within the reservoir water layer were influenced by meteorological and hydrological events, and these were mainly caused by water level fluctuation based on temperature stratification, density current and discharge types. The discharges of WS and HPP induced to the flow of water bodies and the outflows of turbid water and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, respectively. Especially, when hypoxic or low-oxygen condition was present in the bottom water, the discharge through HPP has contributed significantly to the outflow of phosphorus released from the sediment into the downstream of dam. In addition, HPP effluent which be continuously operated throughout the year, was the main factor that could change to a low trophic level in the downreservoir (lacustrine zone). And water-bloom (green-tide) occurring in the lower part of reservoir was the result that the water body of upreservoir being transported and diffused toward the downreseroir, when discharging through the WS. Finally, the hydropower effluent was included the importance and dynamics that could have a temporal and spatial impacts on the physical, chemical and biological factors of the reservoir ecosystem.

최근의 다목적댐 운영은 기존의 홍수조절, 용수공급, 수력발전과 같은 수량뿐만이 아니라 수질, 생태환경 등 다양한 이해관계를 고려하도록 요구받고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 주암조절지댐의 저온 심층수 방류로 인해 사회적 갈등이 있는 지역을 대상으로 수온을 조사하고, 수온변화 특성을 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 주암조절지댐, 하류하천, 순천만 지역에 대해 장기간에 걸쳐 수온을 모니터링 하였으며, 3차원 수치모형(EFDC)을 활용하여 방류량과 같은 다양한 외부 인자들을 고려하여 하류하천 및 순천만에서의 수온변화를 비교 분석하였다. 모니터링 및 수치모의 결과 댐의 저온 방류수 영향은 대체적으로 4월～9월 기간에 나타나는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 또한 댐 저온수 방류 영향이 방류시기, 방류수온, 방류량, 기상, 조위 등 다양한 인자에 의해 복잡한 형태로 변화한 것을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 댐의 저온수 방류로 인한 하류하천 및 연안지역 악영향을 최소화하기 위한 댐 운영 개선방안 수립시 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.