Hydrotechnical facilities within the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone: impacts on hydrologic regime and plant growth patterns of floodplain water bodies of the Pripyat River.
As result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident the territory of the left-bank flood-lands of the Pripyat River have undergone intensive radionuclide contamination. With the purpose of preventing the washing away of radioactive substances, a complex of flood protection dams was constructed. This construction changed the hydrological regime of these territories and caused overgrowth by higher aquatic plants. Absence of a flowing mode of reservoirs, the stagnant phenomena during spring and seasonal high waters on the embank site have caused amplification of eutrophication processes, swamping and, connected with it, increase of water-marsh floristic complex in the structure of the vegetative cover.
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Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Geroyev Stalingrada Ave. 12, Kiev 04210, Ukraine. digudkov@svitonline.com
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D017753:Ecosystem; D004738:Engineering; D004779:Environment Design; D005068:Eutrophication; D063245:Plant Development; D011210:Power Plants; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D012621:Seasons; D014455:Ukraine; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D014881:Water Supply
D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive