LAKE RESTORATION WITH AND WITHOUT DREDGING OF PHOSPHORUS-ENRICHED UPPER SEDIMENT LAYERS

Human activity has been the cause of continuing decline of water quality in most Dutch lakes. Development of lake restoration programmes must take into account the lake functions. Major reduction of the nutrient and pollutant loading is the primary step in lake restoration. Still, the recovery of eu...

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Published in:Hydrobiologia 1992-01, Vol.233 (1-3), p.197-210
Main Authors: VANDERDOES, J, VERSTRAELEN, P, BOERS, P, VANROESTEL, J, ROIJACKERS, R, MOSER, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Applied ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Science & Technology
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Summary:Human activity has been the cause of continuing decline of water quality in most Dutch lakes. Development of lake restoration programmes must take into account the lake functions. Major reduction of the nutrient and pollutant loading is the primary step in lake restoration. Still, the recovery of eutrophic lakes is retarded frequently because of internal phosphorus loading by the lakes' sediments. Sediment dredging, as an additional tool for water quality management to accelerate accomplishing the desired water quality, is studied. In this paper we evaluate the preliminary results of eight lake restoration projects in the Netherlands. The lakes are compared in order to estimate the magnitude of the internal phosphorus loading. Dredging as an additional measure was carried out twice in the peatlake Geerplas. In the Nieuwkoop Lakes only the external phosphorus loading was substantially reduced from 0.9 to 0.2 g P m-2 y-1. Provisional results of these two shallow peatlake restoration projects focussed on eutrophication abatement with and without dredging, are presented. Both show a decrease in phosphorus concentration in the lakes. The necessity to dredge the lakes is discussed.
ISSN:0018-8158
1573-5117
DOI:10.1007/BF00016108