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Groundwater resources in the Kolyma River valley and their changes caused by the operation of the Kolyma hydropower plant

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The transformation of the formation conditions of natural freshwater resources caused by the construction of a water reservoir in the Kolyma River valley is considered. Water resources in the winter low-water season downstream the dam were found to increase many times, and a new groundwater recharge area appeared in the river valley between reservoir upper reaches and Ust’-Srednekan Settl. An increase in seepage loss from the reservoir cannot be ruled out, the more so after the construction of the Ust-Srednekansk Hydropower Plant.

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  1. North-East Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Portovaya 14, Magadan, 685000, Russia

    V. E. Glotov, L. P. Glotova & M. V. Ushakov

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Original Russian Text © V.E. Glotov, L.P. Glotova, M.V. Ushakov, 2014, published in Geoekologiya. Inzhenernaya Geologiya. Gidrogeologiya. Geokriologiya, 2014, No. 1, pp. 20–27.

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Glotov, V.E., Glotova, L.P. & Ushakov, M.V. Groundwater resources in the Kolyma River valley and their changes caused by the operation of the Kolyma hydropower plant. Water Resour 42, 869–875 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807815070052

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