Gravel and boulders mining from mountain stream beds
Author
Radecki-Pawlik, Artur
Kidová, Anna
Lehotsky, Milan
Rusnák, Miloš
Manson, Russell
Radecki-Pawlik, Bartosz
Published in
E3S Web of Conferences
Numbering
Vol. 106 (01005)
Release date
2019
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Language
English
eISSN
2267-1242
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201910601005
Comments
5ᵗʰ International Scientific Conference on Civil Engineering-Infrastructure-Mining, Kraków, Poland, January 17-18, 2019
Keywords
mountain stream, gravel mining, river bed, Carpathians
Abstract
Mountain stream gravel is very often legally and illegally mined and gravel is removed from river beds sometimes on the very large scale which is disastrous for fluvial situation of rivers, for river ecology and river engineering works done for flood protection such as river revetments, bridges and all hydraulic structures. This situation makes a big problem for all river managers. Thus gravel mining of the mountain streams in the Polish Carpathians is the subject of many scientific studies when we observe river problems, but also it has a place in Slovakia. This paper deals with such problems additionally showing examples of such bad practices.
