Open AccessRiver Runoff Impact on the Taganrog Bay and the Kuban River/Azov Sea Coastal Waters Quality
Author(s) -
Anatoly Krutov
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii: problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie/vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii : problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-8253
pISSN - 1999-4508
DOI - 10.35567/1999-4508-2016-2-2
Subject(s) - bay , surface runoff , environmental science , pollutant , water quality , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , geology , ecology , geotechnical engineering , biology
The low-depth Azov Sea coastal waters quality has been investigated. The sea faces considerable human-originated loads caused by the different origin pollutants river runoff. The river runoff pollutants comprise petroleum products, synthetic surface-active substances, phenols, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and heavy metals. Results of the investigation intended to affirm the suppositions on possibilities of the Azov Sea Temryuk Bay and Taganrog Bay coastal waters quality forecasting with the use of limited hydrological and hydro/chemical information obtained from the control stations have been presented. Comparison of the most significant water quality characteristics of river runoff and sea water has confirmed such a possibility. Further studies will be aimed at founding of the correlation dependencies for the most hazardous pollutants.