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Andrius Litvinaitis, Lina Bagdžiūnaitė-Litvinaitienė, Elvyra Šinkovič
Land Use Influence on Water Pollution: the Research of
Šalčia River Catchment
| Conference Information: |
9th International Conference on Environmental
Engineering, MAY 22-24, 2014 Vilnius, LITHUANIA |
| Source: |
ICEE-2014 - International Conference on Environmental
Engineering |
| Book Series: |
International Conference on Environmental Engineering
(ICEE) Selected papers |
| ISSN: |
ISSN 2029-7092 online |
| ISBN: |
978-609-457-640-9 / 978-609-457-690-4 CD |
| Year: |
2014 |
| Publisher: |
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press Technika |
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Abstract
This paper examines Šalčia river water pollution, there were selected 24 water sampling points where was detected concentration of these
nutrients: ammonium nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, nitrite nitrogen, pH, and total phosphorus. Samples were collected starting from the
source of the river, to the mouth of the river, near the Merkys. Points selected according to the land use (catchment is dominated by
forests (52,7%) that have great economic value and nature protection, lower part of the catchment area takes arable land (42,4%)) and
affluents so that the analysis of the results obtained during the experimental helped to determine factors leading to the maximum river
water pollution. According to the data obtained there was found ecological status of the river.
Keywords: anthropogenic activities; nutrients; strength; field investigations; point pollution; diffuse pollution.
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