Contribution of River Mouth Reach to Sediment Load of the Yangtze River

Table 1

Sediment load of the tributaries of the river mouth reach of the Yangtze River.

River	Station	Drainage area (km^2)	Sediment load (Mt/yr)		Data source
			1965–2002	1996–2005
Qingyijiang	Xihe	5796	0.36	0.23	MWR
Shuiyangjiang	Xuancheng	3410	0.53	0.27	MWR
Yuxihe	Chaohuzha	9258	0.38	0.18	MWR
Chuhe	Chaheji	6104	0.18	0.08	MWR
Total rivers		24,568	1.45
Taihu Lake		36,895	0.10	0.10	[12]
Ungauged area		38,537	2.38	1.14	Estimation in this study
Sum		100,000	3.81	2
Huaihe	Sanhezha	270,000	3.73	2.64	[13, 14]
Total			7.54	4.65

MWRC, Ministry of Water Resources of China.