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Friday, May 21, 2010

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ABSTRACT

THE INFLUENCE OF THE USE OF LAND TOWARDS SEDIMENT
CASE STUDY : PAPAR RIVER, SABAH

This study was conducted to observe the influence of the use of land towards sediment at Papar River. The presence of sediment refers to the value of suspended solid and this study was done entirely at Papar River which involved five stations. In this research, the information and the data which has been analyzed were obtained from secondary data namely sediment data, Papar River’s water quality data, rainfall data and etc. The data used was from the year 2004 until 2008.The differences of the land used activities for each station had shown different value of suspended solid. Therefore a few objectives were proposed to determine the influence of the land used activities towards the presence of sediment at Papar River. The results obtained then were illustrated through Microsoft Excell and Arc Gis. In order to fulfill the objectives of the study, researcher used observation method and also land used area analysis based on Arc GIS. Other than that, this study also tries to explain the influence of rainfall towards the presence of suspended solid at Papar River which has been analyzed through SPSS 17.0. From the result of the analysis, it can be concluded that land use greatly influenced the presence of sediment at Papar River.