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The long-term integrated investigations of water quality of rivers at different streams with different anthropogenic loads of the upper areas of Oka and Desna basins on the territory of Kaluga Region testify that downstream from cities a 2-5–km zone with the increased values of determent indices is formed. The research of chemical composition of water and bottom sediments made for streams and water bodies within the cities and adjoining suburbs suggest the increased content of heavy metals resulted from man-made activity. Storm water runoff from the territory of the rivers catchments area is the main contributor to biogenic pollution. It has been determined that most polluted are small rivers running on the territory of large cities and receiving mainly municipal wastes and storm water runoff. Large anthropogenic load is typical for some small rivers with runoff forming on urbanized and economically developed territories.
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SEMENOVA, I., MORSHINA, T., SEMYONOV, V. (2006). IMPACT OF ANTHROPOGENIC LOADS ON WATER QUALITY OF RIVERS OF THE UPPER AREAS OF OKA AND DESNA BASINS. In: Hlavinek, P., Kukharchyk, T., Marsalek, J., Mahrikova, I. (eds) Integrated Urban Water Resources Management. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4685-5_21
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