This study analyzed the water quality characteristics and developed empirical models prior to and after the construction of Baekje Weir, in the Geum River watershed between 2004-2017. The comparative evaluation of the surface water chemistry before and after the four major river projects on the weirs indicated that total phosphorus (TP), based on annual data, rapidly decrease after the construction of the weir while the total nitrogen (TN) decreased. Conversely, chlorophyll-a (CHL) concentration, which is a good indicator of primary productivity, increased after the construction of the weir together with an increase in specific conductivity. Simply put, the construction of the weir led to the decrease in concentrations of N and P due to the increased water residence time (WRT), whereas the CHL : TP ratio greatly increased in magnitude. The regression analysis of the empirical model indicated that CHL had no significant relation (r=0.068, p=0.6102, n=58) with TP before the weir construction, but had a relation with TP after the weir construction (r=0.286, p<0.05, n=56). Therefore, such conditions resulted in an increase in primary productivity on a given unit of phosphorus, resulting in frequent algal blooms. In contrast, seasonal suspended solids (SS) and TP increased during the monsoon period, compared to the pre-monsoon, thereby showing positive correlations (r>0.40, p<0.01, n=163) with precipitation. If the government consistently discharges water from the weir, the phosphorus concentration will be increased due to its reversion to a lotic waterbody from a lentic waterbody hereby reducing algal blooms in the future.

대청호는 1975년에 착공하여 1980년 12월에 대전광역시 대덕구 미호동과 충청북도 청원군 문의면 덕유리 사이의 금강 본류를 가로막는 대청호가 준공된 이후, 대전을 비롯 한 충청 및 전북지역의 용수공급, 하류홍수조절, 수력발전 생산 등을 담당하고 있다. 댐 유역면적은 4,134㎢으로써 금 강 수계 전체 면적 9,886㎢의 41.8%를 점유하고 있으며 유역면적 대비 수면적 비율이 큰 인공호이다. 총 저수량은 14억 9천만 ㎥이며, 연간 용수공급량은 1,649백만 ㎥에 이 른다. 행정구역상으로는 전라북도 장수군, 진안군, 무주군 과 충청남도 금산군, 충청북도 영동군, 보은군, 옥천군, 청원 군 및 대전시의 일부 지역을 점유하고 있어 1개 광역시, 4개도 9개 군을 포함하고 있다. 담수생태계 분야 중 기후변화와 환경오염과 관련된 많은 결과들은 호소생태계에서 밝혀져 왔으며, 현재까지 장기생 태연구사업의 담수생태계 연구지소 중 호수생태계(정수생 태계)가 포함되어 있지 않아 강생태계(유수생태계)와의 포 괄적인 대조를 위해 국가장기생태연구 2단계 2차년도부터 추가된 지역이다. 대청호는 장기생태조사지역인 새만금 지 역의 담수화(호수화) 경향과 이에 따른 생태계 변화를 파악 하는데 유용하며, 최근 매년 하절기에 대청호에 부영화에 의한 녹조현상이 나타나고 있으므로 수환경변화에 따른 호 수생태계 변화를 파악할 필요가 있다.

The key objective of this study was to evaluate trophic state and empirical water quality models along with analysis of fish trophic guilds in relation to water chemistry (N, P). Trophic state index (TSI), based on total phosphorus (TP) and chlorophyll-a (CHL), ranged between oligotrophic and hypereutrophic state, by the criteria of Nürnberg(1996), and was lower than the trophic state of total nitrogen (TN). Trophic relations of Secchi depth (SD), TN, TP, and CHL were compared using an empirical models of premonsoon (Pr), monsoon (Mo), and postmonsoon (Po). The model analysis indicated that the variation in water transparency of Secchi depth (SD) was largely accounted (p < 0.001, range of R2 : 0.76–0.80) by TP during the seasons of Mo and Po and that the variation of CHL was accounted (p < 0.001, R2 = 0.70) up to 70% by TP during the Po season. The eutrophication tendency, based on the TSITP vs. TSIN:P were predictable (R2 ranged 0.85–0.90, p < 0.001), slope and y intercept indicated low seasonal variability. In the mean time, TSIN:P vs. TSICHL had a monsoon seasonality in relation to values of TSIN:P during the monsoon season due to a dilution of reservoir waters by strong monsoon rainfall. Trophic compositions of reservoir fish reflected ambient contents of TN, TP, and CHL in the reservoir waters. Thus, the proportions of omnivore fish increased with greater trophic conditions of TP, TN and CHL and the proportions of insectivore fish decreased with greater trophic conditions.