ORIGINAL RESEARCH
An Improved SWAT for Predicting Manganese
Pollution Load at the Soil-Water Interface
in a Manganese Mine Area
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Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Shale Gas Resource Exploitation, Xiangtan, China
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School of Civil Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China
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School of Science and Sport, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom
Submission date: 2017-08-12
Final revision date: 2017-10-14
Acceptance date: 2017-10-14
Online publication date: 2018-04-13
Publication date: 2018-05-30
Corresponding author
Bozhi Ren
Hunan university of science and technology, Hunan university of science and technology, Xiangtan, Hunan, China, 411201 Xiangtan, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(5):2357-2365
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The prediction of heavy metal pollution load at the soil-water interface of a mining area was studied
through an improved soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model. The Red Flag Mining Area of
Xiangtan Manganese Mine in Hunan Province, China, was selected as the research district. GPS, ARCGIS,
RS technology, and field experiments were employed in this study. A modified one-dimensional migration
model was embedded in the sediment migration source module of SWAT in order to establish an Improved
SWAT model for the prediction of manganese pollution load at the soil-water interface. The key pollution
areas identified by the improved model were consistent with actual mine pollution, with the Nash-Sutcliffe
efficiency Ens and regression R2 coefficients of 0.88 and 0.91, respectively. The study would provide the
theoretical foundation and scientific basis for management and repair at the site.