Open AccessLand Drainage Development Processes and Changes in the Context of Runoff Change in Northern Lithuania
Author(s) -
Rasa Stankevičienė,
Oksana Survilė
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
environmental engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 2029-7092
DOI - 10.3846/enviro.2020.807
Subject(s) - surface runoff , drainage basin , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , drainage , context (archaeology) , land use, land use change and forestry , land use , geography , geology , ecology , cartography , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , biology
The impact of the drainage of excessively wet land on river runoff has so far been assessed differently andvery carefully because of its complexity and diversity. The article analyses changes of drained land areas and runoff inthe river basins of Mūša, Lėvuo Tatula and Nemunėlis. Wet land areas in the Mūša, Lėvuo and Nemunėlis rivers basinsaccount for more than 70% from the total basins area and in the Tatula about 90%. Increase of drained land areas in thestudied river basins has no significant influence on the change of river runoff. Studies have shown that the change indrained land areas did not affect the change in runoff height. Drainage does not have a significant effect on changes inthe annual runoff distribution of the studied rivers.