The Peace Dam is located in near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of the North Han River shared between South and North Korea. It was originally planned to prepare for the effects of the potential breakage of the Imnam dam in North Korea. So, it was made ...
The Peace Dam is located in near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of the North Han River shared between South and North Korea. It was originally planned to prepare for the effects of the potential breakage of the Imnam dam in North Korea. So, it was made as a simple flood control dam that does not involve any water supply or hydropower generation. However, the recent reconciliation efforts between South and North Korea have raised the possibility for its multipurpose utilization. This Study evaluates the possible increase of the flood control ability of the Peace Dam under the condition of its multipurpose utilization, i.e., changing it from a flood control dam to a multipurpose dam. The allocation of flood control and water conservation storage for its multipurpose utilization was assumed to follow that of other similar-sized dams in Korea. The flood control ability was quantified by introducing the concept of storage coefficient based on a nonlinear reservoir model. As the results, quantified by the storage coefficient, the flood control ability of the current Peace Dam was estimated to be just 3.9 hours. However, the flood control ability after its multipurpose utilization could be significantly increased up to 22.6 hours using the reservoir operation method. Here, it was assumed that the dam was operated by the rigid ROM with a constant rate of 0.5. In addition, this result was based on the assumption that the ratio between water conservation storage and the flood control storage was three. Even though the flood control storage is set at just 25% of the total storage, the storage coefficient was increased more than five times that of the current Peace Dam.