The invention discloses a
river health assessment method for a
sediment-laden river, and the method comprises the following specific steps: S1, determining a river evaluation unit, dividing the river evaluation unit into a plurality of evaluation river reaches according to the length of the evaluation unit, determining a river evaluation
index system, and setting a
score assignment standard; s2, index monitoring points are established according to the evaluation river reach, and
data acquisition of river evaluation indexes is carried out; and S3, independently calculating each river evaluation index data according to the data acquired in the S2, and assigning scores to each index according to the
score assigning standard in the S1. According to the
river health assessment method,
river health assessment is carried out by independently adopting the
water quality superior and inferior index, the
water body self-purification index and the
sediment pollution index, the number of adopted indexes is small, but most necessary indexes needed by river
health assessment are included, the adopted indexes are low in obtaining difficulty, the requirement for analysts is low, and the river
health assessment method is more suitable for large-scale popularization.