Landscape and Geological Factors of Water and Ecological Conditions Technogenesis of Donbas at the Post-Mining Stage

Abstract

SUMMARY Military conflict continues in Donbas, posing unforeseeable hazard to people and the environment. This region is one of the largest and most dangerous natural and man-made geosystems with a high density of potentially hazardous facilities. Therefore, assessment of environmental status of reserve drinking and industrial water supply sources in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts in uncontrolled territories and under control of the Government of Ukraine is conditioned by active exploitation of dug wells, wells and springs outside the central water supply system of Donbas by local residents vulnerable to pollution. Based on the geodata integrated into the GIS, models of the Siverskyi Donets river basin surface water pollution dynamics were built by the authors. The authors were built the models of surface water pollution dynamics in the Siverskyi Donets Basin using GIS. For construction of pollution spatial distribution models and assessment of surface water quality, the authors proposed the use of geostatistical methods to obtain interpolation surface pollution level.