Problems of Municipal Water Intake in Nemyriv, Ukraine

Abstract

Summary The results of the studies of the exploitable resources of groundwater in fractured Precambrian crystalline rocks in area of Nemyriv, performed for the period 1975–2021 by various organizations. Of the five hypothetically promising areas, discovered in 1975 by the regional geophysical surveys, for subsequent detailed hydrogeological exploration and constructing the municipal water intake was selected the fragment of the Ustya floodplain near the ancient Scythian settlement. However, when this water intake began to operate it was found that when increasing groundwater production from Precambrian fractured crystalline rocks, its quality dangerously deteriorates.. Studies in recent years have shown that the deterioration of water quality in producing wells of municipal water intake is due to poor natural protection against pollution of productive aquifer near the ancient Scythian settlement, and its incorrect location of this water intake relative to Nemyriv and the fish ponds in the floodplain of the Ustya River. The author of the report believes that in order to remedy the current situation, it is necessary to consider in more detail other previously identified hypothetically promised areas around Nemyriv and move the municipal water intake to another place more protected from pollutions.