The study and the qualification of the spatial distribution of accumulated bottom sediments in small reservoirs is considerably not only on the design stage, but also during the of operation. The majority of investigative papers concerns to the distributions of the accumulated sediments in average and large water reser-voirs. In this work was introduced and describes for the help of the Dendy's method the spatial distribution of the accumulated sediments in the main water reservoir at Zesławice in the period before and after his desilting.In consideration of building the side reservoir, which to take of the functions of the main reservoir in the period its desilting and reconstruction, the conditions of the flow of the water and the sediment was change. It is had the impact on the dis-tribution of the bottom sediments in the main reservoir.It was showed in this work, on the basis of the executed measurements of silting and the determined the silting degree of the main reservoir, that the decrease the intensity of silting studied reservoir had taken place in the result of the split of water and sediment and it also influenced on the change of the spatial distribution of the sediment deposited. It was ...
Despite the various categories of defining the life of water reservoirs, the notion life of reservoir most often relates the period of the operation to such silting degree that makes impossible the realization of the tasks of the reservoir. In this work it was show the change of the value of the silting degree and sediment trap efficiency of chosen reservoirs and was estimates the time after which small water reservoirs will be silted in 50%. This is the period, which by Pitt and Thomson [1984] is defined as HLT, i.e. half-life time. The following reservoirs were chosen to studies: Krempna on the Wisłoka river, Zesławice on the Dłubnia river and Cierpisz on the Tuszymka river. The elaborated silting forecast of the change of the silting degree, make by the Gončarov's method [Wiśniewski, Kutrowski 1973], made possible the qualifi-cation the HLT silting time of small water reservoirs. It was stated that the life of studied reservoirs carried out from 17 to 40 years. The differentiation of the HLT value results from the hydraulic conditions of the inflow and flow through the re-servoir of the water and sediment which one can characterize in the very general method using the sediment trap ...
