Regulation of the Pollutants Content in Surface Waters under the Influence of Mining and Smelting Complex, Using Water Ecosystems Links

Abstract

There was considered a possibility of using of some biota links for water body’s treatment from pollution substances, entering the water from outside. It is known that in the Middle Urals all water bodies are the receivers of wastewaters formed as a result of metallurgical enterprises activities. It was summed up the positive experience of the used of the certain kinds in one of the water bodies of the Middle Urals, which is under the influence of man-made intensive anthropogenic impact from industrial enterprise of mining and smelting complex. This method is especially effective when you receive contamination from the diffuse runoff, and when the interception and treatment in sewage treatment plants or is economically or technically impossible. Essentially, it is formed an effective system that uses its resources to restore the balance, selfhealing and self-regulating. The use of such systems can get a positive result (ecologically improved water body) at a relatively low cost with high efficiency.