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Nature Conservation 3/2011 — 7. 10. 2011 — Nature and Landscape Management — Print article in pdf
The Zbrašov Aragonite Caves – Lessons from Floods in 2010
The Zbrašov Aragonite Caves are located at the village of Teplice nad Bečvou (Central Moravia) close to the Bečva River. The exit from the caves opens on a spa colonnade which is repeatedly flooded by flooding waves.
The author summarises her long-term experience which is used for improving technological measures against penetrating of torrential water into the caves as well as technological facility protection in the caves (lamps, electricity wires, etc.). At the same time, she presents models of the flood extent and the flood arrival time in relation to flow rate measured in the river at limnigraphic stations situated upstream from the caves, in the more upper stretches of the river. After some delay, underground water level rises in the caves lower parts.