Revival of small urban river with water conducted by pump and its evaluation

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the evaluation of a river environment in a city. A questionnaire survey was executed to the inhabitants around Ikemachi river in Kurume, and Komatsu river in Miyazaki, in which the water is conducted by pump. We discuss in this paper the inhabitants' evaluation of the two rivers under the impact of large rivers on environmental improvement.
The findings are as follows: 1) The inhabitants' evaluation responds to the river improvement which is worked to the small urban river, but is influenced by the sense of closeness to the neighboring large river.
2) There seems to be a tendency that the people who have more sense of closeness to large rivers don't like the immoderate artificial work for urban small rivers.