Wan Omar, Wan Maznah
(2002)
Penggunaan Alga Perifiton Di Dalam
Penilaian Status Kualiti Air Lembangan
Sungai Pinang.
PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Abstract
Status kualiti air Lembangan Sg. Pinang ditentukan melalui pemantauan fisikokimia
dan penunjuk alga perifiton pada substrat buatan (slaid kaca). Indeks kualiti air
(IKA) yang dikira berdasarkan nilai min en am parameter (DO, BOD, COD, pH, Nammonia
dan pepejal terampai) mendapati stesen A adalah bersih, stesen B dan C agak
bersih dan stesen I sederhana tercemar, manakala stesen lain di bahagian hilir adalah
teruk tercemar. Alga perifiton yang didapati pada slaid kaca terdiri daripada 80 spesies
Bacillariophyta, 13 spesies Cyanophyta dan 18 spesies Chlorophyta. Konsep penunjuk
biologi dan zon saprob spesifik spesies diatom yang dinyatakan sebagai indeks saprob
(nilai-S) mendapati, stesen A adalah bersih (kualiti air baik, S = 1.4), kualiti air di stesen
B dan C agak baik (nilai-S masing-masing 1.962 dan 1.781), stesen I diklasifikasikan
sebagai sederhana tercemar (S = 2.292) dan lain-lain stesen di hilir adalah tercemar dari
segi organik dengan nilai-S berjulat antara 2.811 dan 3.092.
Water quality status of Sg. Pinang Basin was determined by physico-chemical
monitoring and by periphytic algal indicators colonized on artificial substrates (glass
slides). Water quality index (WQI) that was computed based on the mean values of six
parameters (DO, BOD, COD, pH, ammonia-N and suspended solids) showed that station
A was clean, water quality at stations Band C were relatively good, and station I was
moderately polluted, whereas other downstream stations were highly polluted. Periphytic
algae attached on glass slides consisted of 80 species of Bacillariophyta, 13 species of
Cyanophyta and 18 species of Chlorophyta. The concept of bioindicators and the specific
saprobic zone of diatom species, expressed in the form of saprobic index (S-values),
showed that station A is clean (good water quality, S == 1.4), water quality at stations B
and C were fairly good (S = 1.962 and 1.781 respectively), station I was classified as
slightly polluted (S= 2.292) and other stations downstream were highly polluted
organically' with S-values ranging between 2.811 and 3.092.
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