Soil erosion is one of the most important natural resources management problems in the world and the source of sediment that pollutes streams, fills reservoirs, and causes dramatic impact to the aquatic ecosystem. Urbanisation is one of the significant agents of sediment generation due to soil disturbance and rainfall events. To capture the sediment generated from the construction before impacting the surrounding environment, a well-designed sediment basin is required. The use of knowledge-based systems has been significantly recognized as a way to combine scientific understanding of the process of the natural world with the heuristic rules developed by managers through observation and experience. In this paper, a rulebased decision support system has been developed for designing the dry and wet sediment basins for Malaysian construction sites using Visual Basic Tool. The design which is based on local studies and guidelines includes sizing the basin, sizing of emergency spillway, calculating the sediment basin trapping efficiency and maintenance frequency for both of the dry and wet basin. Preliminary validation, field validation and Turing test were applied for validating the developed system in which the results from this study showed that both of the system and the expert's opinions are almost matching which denotes that the system is intelligent and behaves like a human expert. The system can be considered as a "green technology" tool since it minimizes environmental impact
د.ابراهيم عبد الرزاق العاني | Dr. Ibrahiem Abdul Razak Al-Ani | 2936