Organization of groundwater monitoring in the areas of industrial effluent reservoirs is carried out in stages. At the first stage the collection and analysis of materials of preliminary observations, at the second stage a network of observation wells is created, at the last stage the program of regime observations is developed. The work was carried out at metallurgical enterprises of the Middle Urals. According to the results, generalizations were made, which showed a rather poor state of the groundwater pollution.
Metalliferous streams formed under the influence of mining and metallurgical process create atmo-, litho- and hydrogeochemical anomalies within many cities of the Middle Urals. Studies include sampling and analytical work on the content of 12 metals in acid-soluble, mobile and water-soluble forms. The information obtained is proposed for use in assessing environmental pollution and compiling a land cadastre.
