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Surface Water Quality Analysis Using CORINE Data: An Application to Assess Reservoirs in Poland by Matysik, Magdalena; Absalon, Damian; Habel, MichaÅ; Maerker, Michael is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Reservoirs are formed through the artificial damming of a river valley. Reservoirs, among others, capture polluted load transported by the tributaries in the form of suspended and dissolved sediments and substances. Therefore, reservoirs are treated in the European Union (EU) as “artificial” or “heavily modified” surface water bodies. The reservoirs’ pollutant load depends to a large extent on the degree of anthropogenic impact in the respective river catchment area. The purpose of this paper is to assess the mutual relation between the catchment area and the reservoirs. In particular, we focus on the effects of certain land use/land cover on reservoirs’ water quality. For this study, we selected twenty Polish reservoirs for an in-depth analysis using 2018 CORINE Land Cover data. This analysis allowed the identification of the main triggering factors in terms of water quality of the respective reservoirs. Moreover, our assessment clearly shows that water quality of the analysed dam reservoirs is directly affected by the composition of land use/land cover, both of the entire total reservoir catchment areas and the directly into the reservoir draining sub-catchment areas.

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Author

Matysik, Magdalena; Absalon, Damian; Habel, MichaÅ; Maerker, Michael

Publisher

MDPI AG; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI); Basel: MDPI, 2009- (ISSN 2072-4292)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)