This is how the lake saves: Szczecin ZWiK conducts the action pumping water from the Gunica River to the Głębokie Lakewhich has no tributary and its level falls systematically. – Since the beginning of the year, we have been pouring this water in the amount of about 6900 cubic meters a day – explains Hanna Pieczyńska from the Waterworks and Sewage Plant on TVP3 Szczecin. As a result of this action, the water mirror is to rise by about 90 cm.
The water level falls: Specialists are not entirely sure why the lake is drying. Robert Mańko, a hydrologist from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, says, among others, that “clearly We have a problem with geological drought” why the groundwater level in this lake is falling – he adds.
Climate change? In turn, the spokeswoman of ZWiK Hanna Pieczyńska, cited by Radio ZETemphasizes that Lake Głębokie is a drainage tank, “A In the face of climate change and with so high temperatures As last summer, the water loss can be visible. “
8-kilometer pipeline: To save the lake A almost eight -kilometer pipeline was builtthrough which Guetic water is pumped. Such an operation has been conducted for years. Last year, 200,000 were pumping into the lake. cubic meters of water. Pumping takes place during November-Marzec, when there is an adequate water level in Guica.
See also: The lake dies in Kazakhstan. More on this subject in the text “The dying lake. Kazakhstan connected a drip. It used to be 'the fourth largest in the world'”.
Sources: TVP3 Szczecin, Radio ZET