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Ecological risk in creating the Katun reservoir in connection with the presence of mercury anomalies on the drainage basin area

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 10, pp. 9–12, October, 1993.

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Vasil'ev, O.F., Sukhenko, S.A. Ecological risk in creating the Katun reservoir in connection with the presence of mercury anomalies on the drainage basin area. Hydrotechnical Construction 27, 563–566 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545063

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