Largest Waterway Research Articles

Vertical and Lateral Variability of Suspended Sediment Transport in the Rhine River

ABSTRACTSuspended sediment is one of the major contributors to the total sediment load transported by rivers. Suspended sediment transport is highly variable both in time and space, driven by complex interactions between tectonics, climate change, and anthropogenic activity. Large waterways often underlie strong anthropogenic impact, for example, to ensure navigability and pursue economic objectives. However, stability and ecological integrity of the river system are equally important. For both, economic and ecologic objectives, processes related to the transport, deposition, and resuspension of fine sediment must be understood and quantified. Starting in the 1960s the Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV) and the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) started an extensive monitoring program to quantify suspended sediment transport in German navigable waterways. To cope with the large spatiotemporal variability of suspended sediment transport the WSV combined work‐daily single point measurements and infrequent multi‐point measurements. The aim of our study is to quantify the vertical and lateral variability of suspended sediment transport along the largest waterway in Germany, the Rhine River, and investigate drivers of cross‐sectional variability. We link results from multi‐point measurements with single‐point measurements to assess the representativity of surface samples compared to cross‐sectional means of suspended sediment concentration. The comparison of these two monitoring programs reveals that surface samples strongly underestimate suspended sediment loads. Main drivers that could be quantified are vertical gradients of suspended sediment concentration by means of Rouse profiles and lateral variability which is partially explained by mean channel curvature and related to the underestimation of suspended sediment transport relying on surface samples. Further, we observe that the magnitude of lateral variability is comparable to vertical variability, but often neglected in suspended sediment monitoring. Our study contributes to the refinement of existing monitoring schemes and shows how empirical data verifies and falsifies transport dynamics and processes.

Evaluating habitat use and relative abundance of Iowa's river otter with harvest data

AbstractThe North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) was extirpated from much of the United States in the early 20th century due to habitat loss, pollution of waterways, and overharvesting. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources began a river otter reintroduction effort in 1985, which placed otters in 14 sites across the state. Otters have since been known to occur in every county in Iowa and appear to have successfully repopulated their former range throughout the state. Our objective was to relate land cover characteristics and otter abundance using harvest data. We used data collected by agency staff to map the locations of otter harvest in Iowa from 2006 to 2016. We mapped otter harvest locations at the subwatershed level (also called 12‐digit Hydrologic Unit Code or HUC‐12). We related otter harvest to land cover variables and predicted otter abundance by land cover type. We found that roads, forests, larger waterways, and Ictaluridae (catfish) presence were negatively correlated with otter harvest. Variables positively correlated with otter harvest were areas with greater land cover diversity, wetland patch density, average stream density, and waterway and wetland areas. The land cover model predicted otters in equal or greater numbers than the harvest data in 62.8% of HUC‐12s. The areas of greatest otter abundance estimates were located near recreation areas and urban areas, indicating the underutilization of these heavy‐trafficked areas by trappers. Areas of fewer predicted otters were not concentrated in a single area of the state but occurred along the Interstate 80 corridor.

Estimation of the influence of protective behaviour on expected injuries in transport accidents with hazardous materials

The release of hazardous materials due to transport accidents can have major health consequences for bystanders. The number of casualties will partly be determined by their protective behaviour.This study describes a three-step approach to predict health consequences of protective behaviour (for example, hiding or escaping) of bystanders in the first minutes of a transport accident with hazardous material. First, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to predict protective behaviour. Second, a gas dispersion model (SeReMo) was used to estimate the distribution of casualties for different protective behaviours. Third, results of the DCE and SeReMo were combined to estimate the distribution of casualties in the population-at-risk. This approach was applied to a hypothetical marine accident with different hazardous material scenarios on a large waterway in a close vicinity of a beach/quay with bystanders.An important finding of our study was that in general a short reaction time and escaping in cross-wind direction, as protective behaviours, are of vital importance to reduce the number of casualties. A scenario with a short reaction time and a visible cloud towards the beach/quay resulted in a protective behaviour with the largest reduction of casualties.A dynamic risk assessment approach considering that people threatened by hazardous material are not ‘stationary observers’, but will exhibit protective behaviour, and a risk assessment that takes into account empirical information on expected protective behaviour will present a more realistic estimate of the number and severity of casualties when a large transport accident with hazardous materials would occur.

ANALISIS RUAS SUNGAI CILIWUNG HILIR TERHADAP DEBIT BANJIR DI DKI JAKARTA MENGGUNAKAN HEC – RAS

 The area of DKI Jakarta has an area of ± 661.52 Km2, the City of DKI Jakarta is a swamp managed by 13 water channels that flow to the north of the island of Java, the development of water in DKI Jakarta is part of the way it is released into the sea by gravity and partly by the system. pump. Floods that occur every year in DKI Jakarta cannot be separated from the impact of the flow of water that crosses it. Very large waterways start in the southern part of DKI Jakarta, especially the Bogor area which has a height of more than 200 m above sea level and high rainfall, so DKI Jakarta is usually an area that collects water from its upstream river. The purpose of discussing this problem is to find out the amount of river flood discharge, find out whether the capacity of the river is able to accommodate flood discharge, find out how many pumps and how much pump capacity is needed in order to overcome flood discharge in the marina watershed. Thus, the conclusions obtained from the modeling results of the existing condition of the river's capacity are not able to accommodate flood discharge, therefore it is necessary to install a pump to cope with flooding in the DKI Jakarta Marina watershed using the Hec - Ras method.

Mapping the clouds: the matter of data centers

ABSTRACT The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the social sciences, and in urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers. Much effort has been placed in preserving the notion that data centers are ‘clouds’, a terminology that obfuscates the real human geographies of cyberplaces. In this map-making exercise, we visualize the sociopolitical human geographies of data centers, and provoke the reader to consider the impacts that data centers have on residents and their environments. The maps shown in this paper suggest four trends. First, hyperscale data center owners are building near large waterways, signifying a shift in location preferences. Second, data centers stress local administrations, financing, and availability of upstream resources, as hyperscale data centers step up their input needs. Third, data center development is state-led. Fourth the competition for data center industries unfolds across a multi-level governance context.

Ship Berthing Safety Assessment Based on Ship-Handling Simulator

As the development of ship building technologies, ships have been becoming larger and larger. As a result, the existing ports and waterways can not meet the requirements of safe navigation, berthing and unberthing operations of large ships. In order to ensure the safe berthing and unberthing for large ships, wharf and waterways need to be rebuilt, also it is necessary to check whether the rebuilt wharf can meet the navigation needs. In this paper, the ship handling simulator is used to simulate the safe berthing and unberthing of the pier. This paper establishes the mathematical model of ship motions, generates virtual navigation environment, applies the concepts of track zone width, potential ship handling water area, utility function and risk of berthing operation, and makes a comprehensive analysis of the width of the channel, ship manoeuvring waters and the safety of berthing operation, and puts forward some objective and reasonable suggestions on the safety of berthing. By practical application of ship-handling simulator to evaluate the safety of ship berthing and unberthing, it shows that the method based on ship-handling simulator is objective, feasible and reasonable to analyze and evaluate the navigation safety of wharf engineering, and has a good value of application.

Problems of introducing a system of paid water use in irrigated agriculture in water-deficient regions of Russia (on the example of the Rostov region)

In the face of climate change, regulation of water use is essential. On the example of the Rostov region, the necessity of introducing paid water for agricultural lands was considered. Rostov region is one of the largest producers of agricultural products, including wheat and sunflower. At the same time, this territory belongs to arid territories and needs irrigation of agricultural land. The Lower Don basin on the territory of the Rostov region includes the territory from the Tsimlyansk reservoir to the river mouth. The quality of water resources and river runoff of large waterways in the Don region is largely determined by small rivers, whose environmental problems are also associated with a high anthropogenic load, indicating intense economic activity. The article discusses the possibilities of using the system of payment for water use for agriculture. It is shown that the introduction of a system of tariffs for irrigation water, as well as the modernization of existing legal norms, will reduce the anthropogenic load on the ecosystem. The systemic regulation of water use should ultimately lead to the modernization of the system of irrigation canals and the cleaning of small rivers in the region.

회암사 입지의 풍수론적 고찰

Looking at feng shui characteristics reflected in hoe-am-sa, Yong is the back of Yong where hyeon-mu-bong and Juryong were cast among Yong·Hyeol·Sa·Su in the Feng Shui theory. Hyeol is not a flat ground, but a hyeol-pan with a cascade of steep valleys. There is sa-lyong going down. In this situation, the luck of the land where the water was dispersed and flowing around the hyeol-pan yang-pa-do-gug was scattered, and the fate of fate was at stake. The sa-sin-sa og-dae-sa an-san alone was unable to complete the jang-pung-gug bo-gug. The waterway has a small waterway that penetrates the hyeol-cheo, but the hyeol-pan is scattered around the san-su-dong-geo where the large waterway goes straight on the left and right of the hyeol-pan washed down to freshness. In particular, the water coming from the ju-san direction causes ziggo and wind jikpun from the front, and the wind speed is very high, and the luck of the earth is dispersed and the life cannot be collected. Was done on the land that was scarce. It was analyzed that the inspection came to us because it did not have all the topographical conditions of Feng Shui's basic Yong and Hyeol and Sa and Su.

Distribution of heavy metals in small streams of the south-west of the Altai territory (Russia) under the influence of anthropogenic impact

Based on the environmental monitoring materials of Joint-stock company “Sibir-Polimetally”, as well as Altai State Technical University scientific research, an analysis was made of the ecological state of the surface waters of small streams in the south-west of the Altai territory: the Nikitikha, Krutishka and Korbolikha rivers. The main pollutants in these water bodies are identified. The research results are relevant for the Altai territory, where small watercourses in the area where industrial enterprises are located can be a source of pollution of large waterways, which are of great economic importance for the Siberian region.

Climate variability regulates population dynamics of a threatened freshwater fish

Most predictions for the future climate in temperate ecosystems show longer periods of drought followed by more extreme precipitation events. These changes in flow regimes can strongly affect riverine fish populations; therefore, assessing the recovery of populations following these episodic events provides important information to help guide species management. This study investigated the dynamics of 5 spatially distinct riverine populations of the nationally endangered Macquarie perch Macquaria australasica in southeastern Australia from 2007-2018, a period that included the tail end of a decadal long drought followed by extreme fluctuations in river flow. Modelling catch rates and size trends, we found that 4 of the 5 populations showed some synchrony and underwent a slow recovery that was undetectable for several years. The largest increases in population size were driven by the survival of new recruits. Despite this general trend, we could only find a weak association between annual flow extremes and annual population change. This suggests intermediate variations in river flows may have a negligible influence on annual population change or are idiosyncratic in their effect within each waterway or on different life stages. The one population which did not follow this trend occurred in the largest waterway and was subject to legal recreational fishing, suggesting the magnitude of impacts of disturbance on populations occupying larger systems are reduced, and/or that recreational fishing hinders recovery rates following episodic disturbance events such as drought. Our results suggest that forecasting and management of long-lived freshwater fish must incorporate multi-year planning to include factors such as the maintenance of refuges, connectivity and increased protection of mature fish to aid recovery.

Leprosy: demographic and clinical characteristics of patients of endemic area in Amazon Region

Introduction: The hyperendemicity of leprosy in the northern region permeates regional aspects, including its large territorial extension and waterways, which make it difficult to access health and, consequently, control the disease. So that, the objective of this project is to describe the demographic and clinical profile of patients with leprosy and to evaluate their intradomiciliary contacts.
 Methods and findings: Observational, descriptive study, type of case series, through interview and complementary analysis of the medical records of patients undergoing specific treatment and / or treatment of leprosy reactions followed at the Dermatology outpatient clinic of the University of the State of Pará, in the city of Belém-PA, from January 2015 to December 2017. With convenience sampling, we interviewed 83 patients that met the inclusion criteria and collected socioeconomic and demographic variables, as well as clinical aspects based on the Madrid classification. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were applied as: tables, graphs and statistical measures of position and Test G, with alpha significance = 0,05 and reliability of 95%. The predominance of males was observed (60.24%), the most affected age group was between 30 and 44 years old and the majority with incomplete secondary education. The predominant family income was up to 1 minimum wage. The most frequent clinical type was Virchowian (38 patients). Most of the patients did not present leprosy reaction and those who presented, the type 1 reaction was the most frequent and the nerve most affected was ulnar.
 Conclusion: Prevalence of multibacillary cases is a reflex of late diagnosis. It is important that there be intensification of actions and monitoring and active search for new cases.

Tourism Industry- A Fastest Growing Tertiary Sector in Assam: An Explorative Research

Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world. Besides, it is related to major social phenomenon of the modern society with definite economic, social and environmental consequences. It has taken important role increasing GDP share to economy and increasing new destinations. Assam is fast emerging as a major tourist destination in India with its splendid tourist attractions, its breath taking scenic beauty, dense forests, green valleys, large water ways, rich bio-diversity and unique art and culture making Assam a state with enormous potential for development through tourism. The tourist visits in Assam has been increasing steadily during the last few years and the trend needs to be sustained through the provisions of appropriate tourist facilities and services. This paper is an effort to find out the result of a study in respect of the tourism industry of Assam as the fastest growing tertiary sector.

Urban greenness extracted from pedestrian video and its relationship with surrounding air temperatures

Urban greenness has been associated with a wide range of health benefits, partially due to local cooling. Several studies on these health benefits have assessed individual and population exposure to urban greenness using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from different satellite platforms. Recent comparisons between birds-eye NDVI and street-level measurements suggest that NDVI can severely misclassify individual exposure which, in turn, can bias epidemiologic effect estimates. Pedestrian video data may provide a novel source of individual, eye-level information on both indoor and outdoor exposure to vegetation. The objective of this pilot study was to examine the potential of pedestrian video data for assessing exposure to urban greenness using secondary data collected for a different study on microscale urban air temperatures. Image processing was used to extract green, yellow, and shaded pixels from ˜10 million frames of video footage collected during 40 sampling runs of 20 urban routes measuring 8–10 km each. Resulting greenness values (combined total of green, yellow, and shaded pixels) were compared with concurrent air temperatures using correlations, time series plots, and maps. Correlations ranged from -0.61 to 0.34 and were in the expected direction for 31 of 40 runs. Time series plots and overlay maps showed clear inverse relationships in many cases. Most routes originally chosen to characterize higher temperature areas had negative correlations. Flat and weakly positive relationships tended to occur when conditions were overcast or routes were closer to large waterways. Secondary data are limited for such assessments, but the methods described here are promising for future exposure assessment at the individual level and evaluation of methods applied at the population level.

GETTING AND PROCESSING GEOPRODITIONAL DATA WITH MATLAB MAPPING TOOLBOX

The article considers the problems of providing water, necessary for the needs of the population and the national economy on a global scale and for Azerbaijan in particular. One of the means for the accumulation and storage of water are artificial reservoirs formed, as a rule, in the river valley by water-supporting structures for the accumulation and storage of water for the purpose of its use in the national economy. The main parameters of reservoirs are considered in the article, such as: volume, area of the mirror and the amplitude of fluctuations in water levels in the conditions of their operation, as well as modes of their operation, which became the basis for constructing a mathematical model of the cascade reservoir, which reliably describes the hydrological processes that take place in the reservoirs. Monitoring the status of reservoirs will allow to plan activities, simulate the situation that may arise in other reservoirs that make up the cascade, and make forecasts. The article presents a data processing model in the MATLAB application development environment, which is one of the most popular software in the world. The model is based on the method of calculating differential indices based on multispectral data. Having a large number of additions to the main program in the form of toolboxes, or sets of specialized tools, makes it possible to apply MATLAB in a wide variety of areas of programming. The Mapping Toolbox is specifically designed to leverage MATLAB's richest geospatial capabilities. This article shows how to use Mapping Toolbox tools at all stages of working - from receiving and importing into the workspace of the program, processing and further outputting results in the form of files or finished electronic maps. The task of identifying and mapping the hydrological objects that make up the cascade of reservoirs on the largest waterway in Azerbaijan - the Kura River - was chosen as an example.

Method of forecasting assessment of the maximum runoff characteristics of the Dnipro Basin's rivers in spring season

Introduction. In Ukraine, under the conditions of current climate variability, the water content of the rivers, including the period of spring flood, changes. Against the background of the general tendency of reduction of the runoff characteristics of the spring flood of the rivers in Ukraine, formation of catastrophic floods on rivers leading to flooding of territories and destruction of economic objects should not be ruled out. The research is aimed at solving an important scientific-applied and socio-economic problem of improving the water management in the basin of the country's large waterway, the Dnipro River, through probabilistic assessments of hydrological threats which include spring flood and its consequences – floods of various magnitudes. Therefore it is necessary to create a unified universal mathematical model for formation, calculation and long-term forecasting of water flood characteristics, and to implement it for the Dnipro Basin's rivers (including small ones which usually are not recorded in the data of runoff observations), taking into account the climate changes of the winter-spring period.
 The purpose consists in prognostic assessment of the hydrological regime characteristics of the Dnipro Basin's rivers during the most full-flowing phase of their water regime, the spring flood, for the purpose of spatial monitoring of the state of water objects during this period. The research offers the method of territorial long-term forecasts of the spring floods characteristics which is based on the theory of channel isochrones and consideration of the complex of runoff formation hydrometeorological factors with preliminary determination of the type of water content of spring flood. The spatial representation of forecast variables in cartographic form will allow estimation of the size of the water flood and its long-term repeatability throughout the entire basin and preparation of forecasts for separate rivers, regardless of the degree of their hydrological exploration.
 Results. As a result of application of the complex forecasting method of territorial long-term forecasts of the spring flood characteristics of the rivers (through the example of the Dnipro Basin within Ukrainian borders), typification of floods based on their water content was performed using a discriminant function apparatus which takes into account the probable combination of hydrometeorological factors of spring floods. In terms of regional dependencies forecast of runoff depths and maximum water flow of floods was conducted and probability of their occurrence in the long-term period was determined. Assessment of the forecast methodology provided satisfactory results, and, under the conditions of long-term tendency to decrease runoff depths and maximum water flow during the spring flood of the Dnipro Basin's rivers, it is proposed to specify the average long-term values of these variables which are basic ones when applying the method of territorial long-term forecasts of the maximum spring runoff of rivers. A spatial preliminary estimation of the size of spring floods within the Dnipro River Basin was also fulfilled. The authors completed implementation of the method of territorial long-term forecasts of spring flood characteristics using the data of the water flood of 2017-2018.
 Conclusion. In general, taking into account the obtained criteria of accuracy, the method can be considered effective and recommended for release of annual long-term forecasts of the rivers' spring flood characteristics at in operational units delivering forecasting hydrological services to respective consumers. Through the example of the spring flood of 2017-2018 the possibility of forecasting assessment of the hydrological regime characteristics of the Dnipro Basin's rivers was shown which allows determining the zones of increased river runoff over the spring period and increased threat of possible flooding of surrounding areas, especially when the floods with a rare probability of excess occur.

Communities of Phytoplankton Viruses across the Transition Zone of the St. Lawrence Estuary.

The St. Lawrence hydrographic system includes freshwater, brackish, and marine habitats, and is the largest waterway in North America by volume. The food-webs in these habitats are ultimately dependent on phytoplankton. Viral lysis is believed to be responsible for a major part of phytoplankton mortality. To better understand their role, we characterized the diversity and distribution of two viral taxa infecting phytoplankton: the picornaviruses and phycodnaviruses. Our study focused on the estuary transition zone, which is an important nursery for invertebrates and fishes. Both viral taxa were investigated by PCR amplification of conserved molecular markers and next-generation sequencing at six sites, ranging from freshwater to marine. Our results revealed few shared viral phylotypes between saltwater and freshwater sites. Salinity appeared to be the primary determinant of viral community composition. Moreover, our analysis indicated that the viruses identified in this region of the St. Lawrence diverge from classified viruses and homologous published environmental virotypes. These results suggest that DNA and RNA viruses infecting phytoplankton are likely active in the estuary transition zone, and that this region harbors its own unique viral assemblages.

Urban Greenness Extracted from Pedestrian Video and Its Relationship with Surrounding Air Temperatures

Abstract Urban greenness has been associated with a wide range of health benefits, partially due to local cooling. Several studies on these health benefits have assessed individual and population exposure to urban greenness using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from different satellite platforms. Recent comparisons between birds-eye NDVI and street-level measurements suggest that NDVI can severely misclassify individual exposure which, in turn, can bias epidemiologic effect estimates. Pedestrian video data may provide a novel source of individual, eye-level information on both indoor and outdoor exposure to vegetation. The objective of this pilot study was to examine the potential of pedestrian video data for assessing exposure to urban greenness using secondary data collected for a different study on microscale urban air temperatures. Image processing was used to extract green, yellow, and shaded pixels from ˜10 million frames of video footage collected during 40 sampling runs of 20 urban routes measuring 8–10 km each. Resulting greenness values (combined total of green, yellow, and shaded pixels) were compared with concurrent air temperatures using correlations, time series plots, and maps. Correlations ranged from -0.61 to 0.34 and were in the expected direction for 31 of 40 runs. Time series plots and overlay maps showed clear inverse relationships in many cases. Most routes originally chosen to characterize higher temperature areas had negative correlations. Flat and weakly positive relationships tended to occur when conditions were overcast or routes were closer to large waterways. Secondary data are limited for such assessments, but the methods described here are promising for future exposure assessment at the individual level and evaluation of methods applied at the population level.

Comparative study of 1D entropy-based and conventional deterministic velocity distribution equations for open channel flows

Velocity distributions for open channel flows have been investigated using deterministic and probabilistic approaches. It is well known that the vertical velocity profiles in wide open channels (i.e. aspect ratio width/depth > 5) can be approximated by logarithmic velocity laws and power laws. Recently the entropy concept in the forms of Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy has been employed to estimate velocity distributions in open channels with different aspect ratios. The accuracy of conventional velocity equations is highly dependent on their parameters that can only be estimated by empirical or semi-empirical analytical relations which requires either a good knowledge of velocity field and/or physical properties of the channel, such as topographic conditions, sedimentation conditions and boundary roughness. In contrast, the entropy based velocity distributions derived based on the least-biased probability density function (PDF) by treating time-averaged velocities as random variables are resilient regardless of the flow and channel conditions. However, a comparison of the velocity profiles computed using deterministic approaches and probabilistic approaches has not been rigorously conducted. Furthermore, the accuracy and reliability of associated velocity distribution equations have not been tested thoroughly using data sets collected using advanced techniques. This paper presents a comprehensive and comparative study to analyze the distinctions and linkages between four commonly used velocity laws and two entropy-based velocity distributions theoretically and quantitatively using selective laboratory and field measurements available in the literature, considering typical sedimentation and channel hydraulic conditions. Amongst all, Tsallis entropy based velocity distribution developed from a generalized form of informational entropy exhibits universal validity to sediment-laden flows in wide alluvial open channels, and is found to be superior to others to predict velocity profiles in large waterways with unmanageable rough beds.

USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE SYSTEMATIC NAUTICAL CARTOGRAPHIC MAPPING OF THE PARAGUAY RIVER WATERWAY

One of the main cargo corridors of the Brazilian West region is the Paraguay River. Currently, the Paraguay River Waterway moves more than seven million tons of cargo, being the second largest waterway for cargo movement in Brazil. However, for the uick and safe transport of goods it is essential to have a proper, systematic and complete mapping of the river bed. This work, in charge of the Brazilian Navy and dating back to the Nautical Cartographic Basic Plan of 1935, is performed with the construction of oficial nautical documents, aiming the navigation safety. These cartographic documents, called Official Nautical Charts, are the result from the mapping process, originated from the collection of bathymetric data on specific spots. This collection used always the most modern technologies available and recently, single beam echo-sounders and accurate positioners. Today new technologies are available, including the multi-beam echo-sounder, equipment with several advantages, allowing, among others, the full coverage of the riverbed. This article describes this paradigm shift for the collection of bathymetric data in Paraguay River basin, presenting the preliminary findings and conclusions from the use of this technology

BENTUK DAN MAKNA RUMAH TINGGAL ETNIS TIONGHOA DI BANJARMASIN

Settlement of ethnic Chinese in Banjarmasin tend to be concentrated in the large waterways, namely in the area of Veterans, Gedangan, and RK Ilir who all along the river Martapura. In general, the ethnic Chinese community living in Banjarmasin, build and inhabit their home by adjusting the environment and local culture that has been there, so many who live in the traditional banjar-type house (traditional house banjar). In a further development of life between cultures and behavior of a relationship of mutual influence. This study aimed to identify the forms and meanings (of the form) homes ethnic Chinese in Chinatown Banjarmasin. Selected case studies are some of the homes were inhabited by ethnic Chinese in the form of Banjar traditional house in the Chinatown area of Banjarmasin. This research uses descriptive analytical method, which describe the characteristics of the dwelling as an object of study, looking for the type of home Banjar close similarity, and identification of native cultural elements is indicative of acculturation China with Banjar culture. In this context, architecture is understood as part of the totality of social systems associated with other socio-cultural variables. The analysis was performed by comparing the typology few homes with a shape that resembles a traditional house Banjar, then analyzing the pattern of the layout, style and style, ornaments, as well as the construction of the structure. The analysis showed that the basic form of house Banjar still maintained by ethnic Chinese who inhabit it, because of the assumption of symmetry meaning in Chinese architecture. Ornaments and color elements in Chinese architecture, which blend in with the architecture of Banjar architecture make Chinatown in London came up with a different character from Chinatown in Indonesia in general. What is more important is that all these elements exist in Chinese people's homes loaded with meaning and symbolic message about the meaning of community life and prosperity in the world related to the traditions and beliefs of Chinese society at large. Keywords : settlement, ethnic chinese and traditional house banjar