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A new analytical approach to estimating critical pollution of a water body was developed for the first time. It is shown that it is possible to establish an explicit analytical relation between critical pollution and the volume of the water body and rate (intensity) of pollution.
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It was established that the maximum allowable (critical) level of pollution depends on the initial stability factor of the water body, characterized by the ratio W/H of the volume W of the water body to the volume H of pollution at the source of pollution as well as by the values of experimental coefficientsa and b determining the rates of recovery of the bearing capacity of the water body and rate of its pollution.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 7, pp. 44–45, July, 1996.
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Altunin, G.S. Estimation of the critical pollution of water bodies. Hydrotechnical Construction 30, 422–424 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446425
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446425