PMID- 36977848 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231023 LR - 20231023 IS - 1432-0703 (Electronic) IS - 0090-4341 (Linking) VI - 85 IP - 3 DP - 2023 Oct TI - Evaluation of the Role of Self-cleaning Capacity on Marine Environmental Carrying Capacity: A Case of Ganh Rai Bay, Vietnam. PG - 212-228 LID - 10.1007/s00244-023-00989-0 [doi] AB - Economic activities are constantly increasing in the southern key economic region (SKER), especially in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), which leads to the influx of large amounts of wastewater from this region into Ganh Rai Bay (GRB). The problem of assessing the marine environmental carrying capacity (MECC) of coastal areas is urgent, and the role of self-cleaning must be elucidated. Four typical pollution parameters were selected: ammonium (NH(4)(+)), biological oxygen demand (BOD), phosphate (PO(4)(3-)), and coliforms. The study aims to propose a framework to assess the impact of the role of self-cleaning on MECC and to apply the proposed framework to GRB as a case study. A series of models were used to simulate hydrodynamics, and an advection-diffusion model with an ecological parameter set was used for water quality modelling. The land-ocean interactions in the coastal zone model were used to calculate the GRB and East Sea retention time. Finally, a multiple linear regression model was used to clarify the relationship between the MECC and self-cleaning factors. Calculation results show that the self-cleaning factor increased the MECC(Ammonium) by 60.30% in the dry season and 22.75% in the wet season; similar to MECC(BOD), MECC(Phosphate) increased by 5.26%, 0.21% (dry season), and 11.04%, 0.72% (wet season), respectively. MECCC(Coliforms) in the dry season increased by 14.83%; in the wet season, MECC(Coliforms) doubled. The results provide medium-and long-term solutions to improve the water quality of the GRB, especially the selection of activities that conserve the ecological system and improve the self-cleaning capacity of the bay. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Bui, Long Ta AU - Bui LT AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1884-8520 AD - Laboratory for Environmental Modelling, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. longbt62@hcmut.edu.vn. AD - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. longbt62@hcmut.edu.vn. FAU - Tran, Diem Luong Thi AU - Tran DLT AD - Laboratory for Environmental Modelling, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. AD - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230328 PL - United States TA - Arch Environ Contam Toxicol JT - Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology JID - 0357245 RN - 0 (Phosphates) RN - 0 (Ammonium Compounds) SB - IM MH - *Conservation of Natural Resources MH - Vietnam MH - Bays MH - Phosphates MH - *Ammonium Compounds MH - Environmental Monitoring EDAT- 2023/03/29 06:00 MHDA- 2023/10/23 00:42 CRDT- 2023/03/28 23:26 PHST- 2022/11/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/03/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/10/23 00:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/03/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/28 23:26 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00244-023-00989-0 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00244-023-00989-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 2023 Oct;85(3):212-228. doi: 10.1007/s00244-023-00989-0. Epub 2023 Mar 28.