Open AccessGRAVITY GEOGRAPHY OF RESERVOIRS IN THE SVERDLOVSK REGION
Author(s) -
Vladimir V. Litovskiy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geografičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2079-7877
DOI - 10.17072/2079-7877-2020-17-29
Subject(s) - ideal (ethics) , rationality , compensation (psychology) , capital (architecture) , geology , natural (archaeology) , environmental science , geography , hydrology (agriculture) , geotechnical engineering , psychology , paleontology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , political science , psychoanalysis , law
The article presents the results of research into gravitational geography of reservoirs in the Sverdlovsk region used to clarify the rationality of the economic use of the regional natural capital and the environmental aspects of the spatial placement of productive forces. There was conducted a comprehensive study of the region's water system taking into account the status of its dams and reservoirs within one or several river basins. It has been established that of 7 key reservoirs, most do not satisfy the condition of compensatory pumping of the day surface aimed at improving the isostatic equilibrium of the surface. In practice, overloads are created even where the necessary conditions exist, which causes geoecological problems. It is shown that the reservoir at Reft complies the most with the condition of ideal compensation with the weight of water to establish the ideal isostatic equilibrium, but only in the zone of medium depths. For dam sites in all the reservoirs studied, this condition is not met, and the oretically the permissible load is exceeded multiple times.