BAKIRÇAY HAVZASI KİRLİLİK ETÜDÜ ÇALIŞMASI

The environmental pollution caused by increasing in the world population, unplanned urbanization, industrialization and excessive and unconscious use of chemicals and fertilizers in agricultural areas gradually destroyed the quality of water resources. The water resources, especially the rivers, are contained by a few administrative structures. This causes some problems to prevent the pollution and to get the results rapidly. They are required to be handled the protection, planning and management of the water resources under a common disciplinary, determined the water quality in the river basins and formed the Modern Integrated Water Resources Planning. Therefore, the first step is revealing the pollution size of the river by constituting the pollution measurement and the monitoring network in the basin. In our region, one of the important and significant water basins affecting our city is the Bakırçay Basin. In this study, the pollutant resources of Bakırçay River, flowing through Manisa (Soma and Kırkağaç) and İzmir Provinces, joining to Aegean Sea in north, Çandarlı and being very important for agricultural irrigation, were examined, and 11 different sample taking points were determined depending on the pollutant resources, topographic structure and the river branches. According to the frequency of the sample taking from these points, monitoring time and the determined parameters, a measuring-monitoring network was tried to be formed, and the pollution analysis of the river basin were done as to the results taken For this reason, the water samples were taken once in every three months periodically from the points determined on the river, the analysis of the parameters found in Water Pollution Control Regulations-Chart 1 were done in the Environment and Forestry Directorate Laboratory. In the study, the results of the analysis for the years 2001 and 2002 were examined as graphically, and then the water quality class of the river was determined. In conclusion, the precautions and the suggestions necessary for the protection and the control of the water quality in the Bakırçay River Basin were revealed.