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Table 1 Sediment characteristics for the numerical model

From: The risk may not be limited to flooding: polluted flood sediments pose a human health threat to the unaware public

Sample

Mean diameter (µm)

Corresponding settling velocity (cm/s)

6

94.78

0.593

7

104.57

0.713

8

69.73

0.341

9

31.74

0.079

10

90.98

0.553

11

91.25

0.556

  1. Mean sediment diameters of samples incorporated into the numerical modeling and their corresponding settling velocity after Cheng [126]. Only the sediment samples taken from the defined model area were incorporated into the model, i.e., samples 6 to 11