Environmental Base Study and investigation of environmental impact of Hydroelectric Power Plant Case study: Sardabrud Hydroelectric Power Plant

Subject Areas : environmental management

Majid  Abbaspour ¹ ()
Abdolreza  Karbasi ² ()
Ateke  Pahlevan ³ ()
Hamid  Rahimipour Anaraki ⁴ ()
Saeed  Motahari ⁵ ()

Received: 2007-07-11 Accepted : 2007-10-18 Published : 2010-06-22

Keywords: Hydro electric power plant, Environmental impact, Environmental pollution, Sardabrud, Corrective action,

Abstract :

Life and development of human societies is based on production and consumption of energy, necessity of paying more attention to environment, the fact of running out of fossil fuel and also the need of renewable energy resources has attracted human attention. With having reached renewable energy resources, Iran tends to use these sorts of energy. Hydroelectric energy specially is one of the most important and also most economic renewable sources of energy. To assess environmental impacts of Sardabrud hydroelectric power plant, construction and operation phases Leopold Matrix was used to analyses impacts of each phase on physical-chemical, biological, economical and socio economic environments. Also some experiments were carried out in 4 periods to study the quality of the river. Based on  obtained results of the existing status and values from Leopold Matrix, and comparing  impacts between the operation and no action alternatives, it was revealed that operation alternative is -62 and +69 in construction and operation phases respectively, and no action alternative is -52 and -82 in construction and operation phases respectively. This after averaging the operation score was +7 and no action score was -133