Evaluating Runoff Generation And Water Quality At A Small Forested Catchment Study Case Luot Mountain At Vfu In Xuan Mai Town Hanoi Capital Vietnam

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

VIETNAM FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

STUDENT THESIS

Evaluating runoff generation and water quality at a small forested catchment

Case study: Luot mountain at VFU in Xuan Mai town, Hanoi capital, Vietnam

Major: Advanced Curriculum in Natural Resources Management

Code: D850101

Faculty: Forest Resources and Environmental Management

Student: Vu Duong Ly Student ID:0954011529

Class: K55 Natural Resources Management Course: 2010 – 2014

Advanced Education Program

Developed in Collaboration with Colorado State University, USA

Supervisor: Dr. Bui Xuan Dung

Hanoi, November 2014

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Dung and Prof: Lee Mac

Donald providing continuous encouragement and enthusiastic support during the research

work in. I greatly appreciated the help provided for by the weather station and laboratory

work at Vietnam Forestry University, and would especially like to thank Ms. Diem, Mr. Le

who helped me directly.

TABLE CONTENT

ABSTRACT..........................................................................................................................1

I. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................2

II. OVERVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS RESEARCH ISSUES........................................4

2.1. Overview........................................................................................................................4

2.2. Limitation of the previous studies...............................................................................5

III. OBJECTIVE, SCOPE, CONTENT OF THE STUDY..............................................6

3.1. Objective ........................................................................................................................6

3.2. Scope ..............................................................................................................................6

3.3. Contents...........................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.

IV. STUDY SITE AND METHOD ....................................................................................7

4.1. Study site........................................................................................................................7

4.2. Method ...........................................................................................................................8

4.2.1. Rainfall monitoring ....................................................................................................8

4.2.2. Catchment runoff monitoring ....................................................................................8

4.2.3. Observating water quality of catchment runoff.........................................................8

V. RESULT AND DISCUSSION .....................................................................................13

5.1. Characteristic of runoff generation...........................................................................13

5.2. Runoff component.......................................................................................................16

5.3. Water quality and characteristic of catchment........................................................19

VI. CONCLUSION............................................................................................................24

REFERENCES...................................................................................................................25