Open AccessMeasures for Improving the Quality of Watercourses in the Impact Area of the Baia Mare Industrial Perimeter
Author(s) -
Oana Mare Roşca,
Lucia Mihălescu,
Zorica Voşgan,
Monica Marian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of university of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine cluj-napoca. agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1843-5386
pISSN - 1843-5246
DOI - 10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:9682
Subject(s) - environmental science , limiting , industrial area , structural basin , water quality , effluent , catchment area , aquatic environment , environmental engineering , drainage basin , water resource management , ecology , geography , geology , engineering , biology , cartography , mechanical engineering , paleontology
The Baia Mare industrial area is located in the Baia Mare Depression (NW Romania). The main source of impact on the watercourses of the Baia Mare industrial area is the exploitation of non-ferrous ores that, over time, a number of changes generated in the environmental parameters. The main drainage axis of the above noted industrial center is formed by the Săsar River and the Firiza River. Since the response of the aquatic communities to the environmental factors best reveal the local conditions; the zoobenthos communities in 10 stations located in the Săsar basin were analyzed during 2003-2009. Contributions to improving the quality of water contaminated by the industrial effluents.   In the conditions of limiting disturbances that block the detoxification and self-purification processes, there are prerequisites for improving the quality of aquatic life.