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Assessment of hydrological changes in the Šušvė river
Type of publication
Straipsnis konferencijos medžiagoje Clarivate Analytics Web of Science ar/ir Scopus / Article in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science or Scopus DB conference proceedings (P1a)
Assessment of hydrological changes in the Šušvė river
Publisher
Akademija : Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2015
Date Issued
2015
Extent
May p. 1
Is part of
Rural development 2015: Towards the transfer of knowledge, innovations and social progress: 7th international scientific conference, 19–20th November, 2015, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania [elektroninis išteklius]: proceedings. Akademija : Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2015
The construction of dams in rivers negatively affects ecosystems because dams violate the continuity of rivers, transform the biological and physical structure of the river channels, and the most importantly – alter the hydrological regime. The impact on the hydrology of the river can occur through reducing or increasing flows, altering seasonality of flows, changing the frequency, duration and timing of flow events, etc. In order to determine the extent of the mentioned changes, The Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) software was used in this paper. The results showed that after the construction of Angiriai dam, such changes occurred in IHA Parameters group as: the water conditions of April month decreased by 31 %; 1-day, 3-days, 7-days and 30-days maximum flow decreased; the date of minimum flow occurred 21 days later; duration of high and low pulses and the frequency of low pulses decreased, but the frequency of high pulses increased, etc. The analysis of the Environmental Flow Components showed, that the essential differences were recorded in groups of the small and large floods, when, after the establishment of the Šušvė Reservoir, the large floods no longer took place and the probability of frequency of the small floods didn’t exceed 1 time per year.