Abstract
The main purpose of this chapter is to provide an environmental flow assessment, to protect a river ecosystem and sustain the integrity of a river by determining the minimum flow owing to its importance in generating energy. To generate electricity, runoff river-type hydropower plants and plants with large reservoirs (dams) have been widely used, especially in recent decades. Because of this, an accurate assessment of environmental flow is crucial. In this chapter, the concept of an assessment of environmental flow is briefly examined, and then different environmental flow assessment methods are employed to determine environmental flow in a selected river with a power plant. The river that is considered is the Ceyhan River and the hydropower plant is the Kandil Hydropower Plant, which is located in southeast Turkey. In determining environmental flow, the Tennant method and flow duration curve analysis are used. Consequently, calculated flows and project flow are compared and suggestions are made.
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