Quality of water in Reservoir II in Siemiatycze and its tributaries have been monitored before and after bathing season 2011. State of water quality appeared to be poor and insufficient to fit bathing and irrigation requirements. Two inflows: Kamianka River and Mahomet River are the important source of reservoir pollution (e.g. organics, total nitrogen, nitrates, total phosphorus). Kamianka River receives wastewater from municipal treatment plant and Mahomet River collects runoff from cultivated land. Biogens incoming with the inflows result in annually cyjanophyta bloom in the Reservoir II and depreciation its utilitarian value. At the actual state of wastewater management and agricultural practices in the catchment area, Reservoir II can be use only for retention or fire protection purpose. ...
The possibility of biological treatment of sewage from the production of organic polymers was assessed. The chemical quality of raw and treated sewage (CODCr, BOD5, ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, total suspension, pH, chlorides and sulfates) was analyzed. The level of reduction in the analysed sewage quality indicators (%), sewage biodegradability (α) and the technical efficiency of treatment (Psw) were determined. It was shown that the limited effectiveness of the treatment process results from the excessively high load of organic contaminants. The analysed sewage contains substances which do not biodegrade easily, negatively influencing the conditions for activated sludge processes in the bioreactor. The activated sludge is characterized by low biodiversity and has an insufficient structure. The treatment process requires an introduction of technological changes which will lead to a decrease in the load of sewage entering the bioreactor. ...
The distribution of precipitation is a particularly important factor in periods of critical crop plants which the greatest demand for water. At this work a number of meteorological characteristics associated with precipitation got in Puczniew station in years 1972-2002 were analysed: annual and six-month sums of precipitation; changeability of sums of annual and six-month precipitation (with using the division of years and months on extremely dry, very dry, dry, average, wet, very wet and extremely wet surface); number of days with precipitation (in periods < 10 mm, 10.1 -20 mm, 20,1-30,0,0 mm, 30.1-40.0 mm and above 60.0 mm); appearing of rainless periods. In examined 31-years from1972 to 2002 the averaged annual sum of falls in Puczniew amounted to 540.7 mm. From performed analysis we obtained none of years extremely dry and particularly humid: 2 years stayed ranked to dry, 27 - up to averages, 2 - to humid. Years 1983 and 1989 were dry, however year 1977 was humid and 2001 very humid. On average within one year it appeared about 3 rainless periods, appearing mostlyin summer year (59% of cases), and dominating droughts have lengths from 9 up to 17 days (90%). ...
Green roofs are one of the method of recovering green space in urban are-as. They are also effective in improvement of air quality and local climate as well as play an important role in thermal insulation of buildings. The most important role they play in urban areas is rain water retention and delaying of the runoff. The main goal of the research was to estimate potential influence of the green roof substrate on runoff water quality. Preliminary results show increase of the con-centration of phosphates and total solids in leachate. Mean concentration of solids in intensive roof substrate leachate amounted 231 mg dm-3 and in extensive sub-strate leachate 274 mg dm-3, comparing to concentration 6-7 mg dm-3 in simulated rain. Phosphorus concentration in intensive and extensive substrate runoff amounted 0,112 mgPO4-P dm-3 and 0,126 mgPO4-P dm-3 respectively. Phosphorus concentration in simulated rain amounted 0,056 mgPO4-P dm-3. Even if the concentrations in substrate leachate are low, phosphorus can still be an important factor influencing green roofs runoff receiver quality. ...
